So I was on the left side of the stage. About
45 minutes prior to Travis coming out is
when it started to get intense.
There was pushing that started
happening behind us.
Fights were breaking out,
people were throwing water bottles.
It was basically a war zone and it
just got worse and worse the closer
to when Travis was coming out.
I think around the five minute mark,
the pushing begin to be so aggressive.
Each time I would be pushed.
I'd almost touch the ground back and forth,
back and forth and at this point
you're at the mercy of the crowd.
We were packing so tight we were
like sardines in a can and the
feeling was like imagine someone
coming up behind you and bear hugging
you as hard as they possibly can.
And it's just bodies.
So around 5 minutes people
started falling over.
And I just remember I remember the look
of terror on peoples faces around me.
Everyone realized like we have to
get out of here and I remember
there was a girl next to me and
before the pushing it started.
She was just saying that.
That she she knew she was gonna enjoy
the concert 'cause she was already like.
I'm tall so I was able to get air
on the top but everybody else.
Basically was getting suffocated
and so when the pushing started
happening when soon as Travis came out,
I felt the flames and I realized
I had to get out of there.
I was going to get crushed to death
so I started making my way out and
basically telling people to back up.
Hey, we're trying to get out.
People were rushing the stage.
There was one point where someone
said everyone put their hands up.
I put my hands up and I wasn't
able to get him back down.
When I finally got him back down,
I basically teamed up with the people
immediately around me and I told
everyone like get it low and like
basically put your arms out like this
so you can create some space for yourself.
And so we're doing that and I'm
starting to make my way out.
I hit a fence on the side where
a bunch of people had fallen down
and the whole time like I'm trying
to pull people up and.
I'm pulling someone up.
There's people on the ground trying to like.
Used me to pull themselves up and
I just remember thinking like if
I fall it's over for me.
And.
Uhm? So I find a way to get off the
wall and I start going to the back.
I'm making my way through the crowd the
whole time that pushing still happening.
The crushing is still happening and
I reach a point where I'm losing
consciousness and I'm like I don't.
I look above the crowd.
I don't see an end insight and I just
feel like people pushing me from behind.
And finally I hit a pocket of air.
And at that point.
I just go as fast as I can through the crowd.
I was that night I was wearing a
sweater like this and a hoodie
and I'd sweated through both of
them completely like I could have.
I literally took off my hoodie and I
could squeeze it out and there was sweat.
I got to the end and I sat on the
sidewalk and just sat there like
in a daze for minutes.
I just remember bodies everywhere
like limp bodies,
people pulling bodies out of the crowd.
The minute Travis came out,
I went with a friend and I turned
around and looked for him. He was gone.
There was no cell phone service so.
Finally, when I went far back enough,
he called me and was like bro where you at?
I spent 20 minutes on the ground and
the girl there was a girl next to me who
was for sure dead and I didn't realize.
That people other than that experience a
day later he sent me an ABC News article
saying that two people had died that
were standing literally right next to me.
And. I'll never forget I'll never forget
to look at terror on peoples faces.
That's the thing that sticks with me
the most I remember there was a girl
at one point he was holding my hand I
didn't know this girl whatsoever but
she held my hand and I held her hand
as long as I could until eventually
I lost her in the crowd.
But yeah,
that was pretty much experience in a
nutshell. Thank you, it's a war zone.