Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis says he saved a baby’s life during Carpool Karaoke with James Corden

The musician stopped to help the infant during filming
Life saver: Anthony Kiedis saved a baby's life
Emma Powell16 June 2016
The Weekender

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Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis has recalled how he saved a baby’s life while taking part in Carpool Karaoke with James Corden.

Kiedis, 53, said the group were in the middle of a dance off - which saw them wrestling topless - as part of the Late Late Show skit when a woman screamed for help.

Describing the moment on the Chris Moyles Breakfast Show, the musician said: "We danced off, we tied and then we were going to celebrate with some Mexican food on the corner.

"And a woman came out of her house, holding a child saying 'My baby, my baby, my baby can’t breathe!'

Kiedis continued: "We all ran across the street, the lady thrust the baby into my arms, the baby was not breathing and I thought 'I’m gonna try and do a little baby CPR real quick to see if I can get some air in this kid.

“I tried to open the mouth. [It was] locked shut. So I started rubbing the belly, bubbles started coming out of the mouth, the eyes rolled back into place. The ambulance showed up and I handed the baby over who was breathing and fine and we went back to shooting Carpool Karaoke."

The singer insisted that he wasn’t a hero and told Moyles that he will visit the family of the child when he is back in the US.

The US band joined Corden on Monday night's show and belted out a string of their biggest hits including By The Way, Can’t Stop and Californication.

Michael Balzary aka Flea and Corden then sang a rendition of Food Glorious Food from the musical Oliver.

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