{"id":28136,"date":"2019-08-01T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T00:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1061682"},"modified":"2019-08-01T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T00:14:49","slug":"echosmith-drummer-apologizes-after-allegedly-contacting-travis-barkers-teen-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/echosmith-drummer-apologizes-after-allegedly-contacting-travis-barkers-teen-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Echosmith Drummer Apologizes After Allegedly Contacting Travis Barker’s Teen Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Echosmith<\/strong> drummer Graham Sierota <\/strong>is apologizing after sliding into the DMs of Travis Barker<\/a><\/strong>‘s 13-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the past few years, Barker’s daughter, Alabama Luella Barker<\/strong>, was messaged numerous times on Instagram<\/a> by the 20-year-old. At first, the messages were him introducing himself, with one stating, “By the way I’m Graham from Echosmith and I think ur beautiful.” Years passed before the the musician decided to send her an invite to a party. According to screenshots, she eventually replied, “Ur like 40.”<\/p>\n

“I just wanted to say i really like ur music and sorry messaging and I’m 20,” he responded. <\/p>\n

In the last shared response from Alabama, she told him, “Ok but u understand I’m a child ?”<\/p>\n

It appears his invitation to the BBQ scared the 13-year-old so much, she decided to remind her followers that it is not<\/em> appropriate to attempt to make communication with minors. “So once again I am bringing this to your attention because I’m a 13 year old girl and he is 21\/20 super creepy,” she captioned the screenshots.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Of course, the issue was brought to her father’s attention, who said in a statement that he was “disgusted” by the 20-year-old’s actions. He told multiple outlets, “That’s predatory behavior and there is nothing cool, normal or OK about it at all.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Graham has since made his Instagram profile<\/a> private and issued an apology. In his statement, the drummer claimed the whole situation was just a big misunderstanding. “I had invited Alabama to my parents’ big family BBQ along with many other people, and it wasn’t until she responded that I realized her age at which point I apologized to her. I’m really sorry and feel very badly about this,” the artist explained via his rep. “I didn’t realize she was a minor and assumed she was my age.”<\/p>\n

He added, “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.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Shutterstock; Getty Images Echosmith drummer Graham Sierota is apologizing after sliding into the DMs of Travis Barker‘s 13-year-old daughter. Over the course of the past few years, Barker’s daughter, Alabama Luella Barker, was messaged numerous times on Instagram by the 20-year-old. At first, the messages were him introducing himself, with one stating, “By the way I’m Graham from Echosmith and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-17 00:40:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}