David Foster Reveals Fear of Elevators, Has Walked Up 65 Flights of Stairs to Avoid Them

David Foster is so afraid of elevators that he can only remember being in five of them as an adult.

The 75-year-old music producer, who is a 16-time Grammy winner, opened up about his fear of elevators after being asked about his workout routine.

“I try to go to the gym three times a week. Also, I literally never take an elevator. It’s claustrophobia. I’ve been in an elevator five times in my adult life. Three of those were for surgeries in the hospital. I was drugged, so it was OK,” David told the Wall Street Journal.

David revealed one incredible story about why he went in an elevator.

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He said, “The other two times were extraordinary circumstances. One was with [opera singer Luciano] Pavarotti and his 20th floor place in New York. I was working with him and Celine [Dion] on a duet and then the wine’s flowing, everybody’s drinking and I said, ‘I’m leaving now,’ and I started to go for the stairs. And he goes, ‘No. Today you don’t, today you take the elevator.’”

“He gets in this little elevator with a little seat in it. He sits down, he grabs me, he pulls me onto his lap, and he sings ‘Ave Maria’ in my f—ing ears so loud. I mean, Pavarotti’s singing to me all the way down. Anyway, to answer the question about exercise, I’ve taken millions of stairs in my life,” David said.

David also talked about walking up 65 flights of stairs so he could use the swimming pool at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands.

“There’s this place in Singapore called the Marina Bay Sands. We were staying there while shooting Asia’s Got Talent. From time to time I wanted to go to the pool, so I would walk up the 65 flights to get to the pool,” he said.

Watch a first look at the new Broadway musical that David wrote!