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