Okay, so you have a new album coming out. What is the absolutely coolest PR stunt you can pull? Save a baby’s life is right up there. Except that it was anything but a stunt when RHCP singer Anthony Kiedis did just that for real when taping an episode of “Carpool Karaoke” for The Late Late Show with James Corden that aired June 10 on CBS.
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As New York’s Daily News reports, Chili Peppers Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer were “doing an epic dance-off when a woman suddenly ran out of a nearby house, desperately holding her child and screaming that the tot couldn’t breathe. ‘We all ran across the street, the woman thrust the baby into my arms, the baby was not breathing,’ [Kiedis] recalled while taking to radio host Chris Moyles on Radio X.
“‘I thought ‘I’m gonna try and do a little baby CPR real quick, see if I can get some air in this kid,”‘ he continued.
“The ‘Other Side’ crooner rubbed the baby girl’s stomach and watched as bubbles came out of her mouth. The eyes rolled back into place, the ambulance showed up and I handed the baby over, who was now breathing and fine, and we went back to Carpool Karaoke,’ he added.”
The sketch has been viewed on YouTube over 26 million times…
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The singer pointed out that his action was simply natural instinct for the father of an eight-year-old son. “When you’re a dad, and someone says, ‘My baby!’ you jog across the street,” he said.
“The little baby looked at me the entire time until the ambulance came, little baby Nina,” he added.
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