Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian were friends for more than a decade before the reality TV star sent the Blink-182 drummer a text that he said changed both their lives forever. Speaking to the U.K.’s The Times, Barker, 50, recalled first befriending Kourtney’s younger sister, Kim, in the early 2000’s when she was a wardrobe assistant to his then-girlfriend socialite Paris Hilton.
The drummer, who grew up working class in Fontana, Calif., then became friendly with the whole ultra-glam, decidedly not blue collar Kardashian clan when he moved near them to Calbasas, Calif. after making some money in Blink….
