UPDATE 8/2/19 7:43 A.M. PST: Alabama took to her Instagram late Thursday, speaking out after Graham’s apology. She shared via her stories:
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UPDATE 9:15 A.M. PST: Graham Sierota has released a statement in response to Alabama’s allegations he was being “super creepy.”
He confirmed sending the invitation but claims it was an honest mistake:
“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. 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.”
He’s really saying he mistook a 13-year-old for an adult? Hmm…
He also makes no mention of the message displayed on Alabama’s IG Story before the BBQ e-vite, in which he appears to tell her how beautiful she is.
In 2016. When she’s 10 years old.
Frankly that was far more disturbing than the “family BBQ” message and demands a response.
This is a parent’s worst nightmare of what will happen when their kid gets Instagram…
For those who don’t know, Travis Barker has two children with former pageant queen Shanna Moakler — a 15-year-old son named Landon and a 13-year-old daughter named Alabama.
Now the Blink 182 drummer is fuming after the latter was the target of some “super creepy” behavior, apparently by another adult musician on social media.
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On Tuesday, Alabama shared some messages she allegedly received from a drummer named Graham Sierota of the band Echosmith.
While Graham and his siblings were just kids when they started the band, they’re all adults now — he’s 20 years old.
Obviously messaging a 13-year-old girl is wildly inappropriate.
Alabama wrote as she posted a screenshot of some of Graham’s alleged attempts to reach out:
“Hey guys! 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”
See the photo proof:
In case you didn’t notice, the account began messaging Alabama in September of 2016.
Yeah, that’s when she was TEN YEARS OLD.
Graham would have been 17 at the time, also not an adult but obviously nowhere in the ball park of being a fellow child.
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Allegedly, he first just messaged her “Hi” a few times, not taking the hint and trying again; then he sent a message which made his intentions a little more clear:
“By the way I’m Graham from echosmith and I think ur beautiful”
Sickening.
BTW, this is a photo of Alabama with her family in November of 2016:
Alabama didn’t even respond — until a few years later, on July 12 of this year when the account sent her an invitation to a party at his home.
What the serious eff??
This time Alabama did message back, writing simply:
“Ur like 40”
The account (which is now private, btw) then responded:
“I just wanted to say I really like ur music andsorry for messaging and I’m 20”
Sorry for messaging? You’re messaging to tell her that!
The last message captured in the screengrab is Alabama telling him in no uncertain terms:
“Ok but u understand I’m a child?”
Oh, and she tagged the band in the post. So they’ll ALL understand what’s going on now:
She also posted a message someone sent her afterward:
“Graham has a history of contacting underage girls. One who was 11.”
We have no idea if that’s true, but it certainly seems consistent with what she shared to her IG Story.
When The Blast saw all this, they reached out to Travis himself, who said:
“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.”
He continued:
“That’s predatory behavior and there is nothing cool, normal or OK about it at all.”
If we’re being honest, that is a far calmer response than we would have been capable of delivering.
What would you do if YOUR daughter got skeeved on by someone on social media??
[Image via Apega/Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.]
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