Travis Barker recalls late mom Gloria's last life-changing advice

Travis Barker recently got candid and reminisced about his last conversation with his late mother, Gloria Barker.

On the Thursday, August 20 episode of CNN podcast All There is with Anderson Cooper, the 50-year-old American musician and songwriter recalled the advice his mother gave before her passing.

Barker, who lost Gloria a day before starting high school, opened up to Cooper, admitting that she had “no clue” that she was about to depart from life.

Calling to mind, he shared, “I remember they were like, ‘you gotta get down there,’ and luckily I got down there the day she passed. And had a chance for her to say, like, ‘pursue music, I really want you to pursue music.’ I still didn’t think those were last words.”

When the podcast host and the renowned American broadcaster inquired if that encouraging advice was her last words, Kourtney Kardashian’s husband replied with one word, “Yeah.”

Barker went on to explain, “From the time my mom said that to me, it was like tunnel vision. I feel like when a parent passes like this, I feel they’re an angel and they help you so many ways, you know, guide you.”

Notably, the crooner of All the Small Things became visibly emotional when he told Cooper that he went to school the day after his Gloria breathed her last and it was the time when he made his music career a priority.

It is pertinent to mention that Gloria Barker succumbed to an autoimmune disease, Sjögren’s syndrome, on September 3, 1990.