Pink revealed that she’s really afraid of heights and that’s precisely why she keeps launching herself into the air during her concerts.
The singer, 46, appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday, June 2, where she opened up about the phobia and the logic behind his refusal to let her win.
She recalled an early incident that confirmed how real the fear is, describing a walk with her husband Carey along a cliff road that ended with a request to get out of the car and walk.
“I said, ‘Let me out or I’ll never speak to you again.’ I had to walk. I can’t stand heights,” she said.
“And that’s why I do this. I believe in feeling the fear and doing it anyway.”
Far from being a problem, aerial performances have become the defining spectacle of her live shows, and she has described the effect they have on audiences as the main reason she continues to do them.
“It turns 50-year-old men into 6-year-old boys… Like the first time you see magic,” she said. “People say that to me every night. That’s why I’m so bored at home.”
When Meyers asked her how she turns off the fear once she’s actually in the air, she was frank about it.
“It’s so liberating. My mom once said to me, ‘Are you never going to stay down?’ And I thought, ‘Why would I?’ If I can do it, if I can convince people to shoot me, why wouldn’t I do it? It’s so much fun.”
