Black Eyed Peas star Will.I.Am suffered a near fatal accident in childhood when he almost drowned in a swimming pool but got rescued by a friend.
The 38-year-old Voice star did not listen to his mother's advice when he was younger and he decided to take a quick dip in a pool, despite not being able to swim, reported Daily Mirror.
"I was like, 'Ma, can I go swimming?' She was like no, boy, you ain't going in no swimming pool. So my mom said no but I did the opposite. I've never been in a swimming pool and so I don't know the difference between 3ft and 9ft.
"I'm thinking that everything is at the height that I'm at. So I'm walking and I start sinking and then I drown. I'm under water for about three or four minutes."
A friend came to the singer's rescue.
"They gave me mouth to mouth and then I'm, like, dead. And then I come back. They took me to hospital and I'm in there for about a week or something. I almost lost my life," he said.
"... To see the worry on my mom and my uncle's faces... And just the reminder of, like, don't do things that you know you shouldn't be doing. I shouldn't have been swimming because I never knew how to swim," he added.
