Pray for Travis and Adam
By the DivaAs we type, Adam Goldstein (known professionally as DJ AM) and musician Travis Barker are in an Augusta, Ga. hospital being treated for serious burns after their Lear jet crashed on takeoff from Columbia, S.C.
We met Adam several years ago at a party he was working at the Delano Hotel in Miami. We’d known about him — he was involved in a relationship for a time with Nicole Ritchie — but were very surprised to find out that he was not a spoiled brat celebrity but a supernice guy.
We went up to his DJ booth and asked him if he had some specific music. He laughed — it was older and out of his spectrum that night — but offered to come up with some other stuff we might like. And he didn’t blow us off. He chatted, asked US about OUR life and got to work playing our songs.
On the celebrity ego spectrum, he had NONE. He was a sweet boy with a great, low-key personality and seemed totally real.
And so we pray for Adam and for Travis, who was on the plane, and for the families of the others who died in this crash. It’s been a long time since we had a celebrity plane crash, so to speak, but this one looks like it’s shaping up to be a real tragedy.
