Travis Barker has blasted a 20-year-old musician for messaging his 13-year-old daughter.
Travis Barker
The Blink 182 musician lashed out at Echosmith drummer Graham Sierota for inappropriately messaging his daughter, Alabama, calling him "predatory".
Drummer Travis told The Blast: "When I found out a 20-year-old man was trying to get in touch with my 13-year-old daughter by filling her Instagram messages with party invites and compliments I was disgusted. That's predatory behaviour and there is nothing cool, normal or ok about it at all."
Alabama revealed on social media that Graham first messaged her when she was 10 but she did not respond. He sent her a number of messages saying "hi", which she ignored. He also wrote: "By the way I'm Graham from echosmith and I think ur beautiful (sic)."
This year, screenshots show that Graham messaged Alabama with an invite to a barbeque and she replied saying: "Ur like 40 (sic)."
He said: "just wanted to say i really like ur music and sorry for messaging and I'm 20 (sic)."
And aspiring musician Alabama responded by telling him: "Ok but u understand I'm a child?"
Alabama posted the DMs and wrote: "Hey guys. So once again I am bringing this to your attention because I'm a 13 year old girl and he is 20/21 super creepy (sic)."
Graham admitted to messaging Alabama but claimed he did not know how young she was. He told Just Jared: "I had invited Alabama to my parents' big family BBQ along with many other people, and it wasn't until she responded that I realised her age at which point I apologised to her. I'm really sorry and feel very badly about this. I didn't realize she was a minor and assumed she was my age. I made a careless mistake and this is a big lesson for me. I would like to apologize again to Alabama, her dad Travis, and her family."
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