RHCP bassist Flea's daughter used his Grammy award as a shovel

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5 Apr 2022, 16:28

Kids are always good at keeping you grounded.

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist revealed that his Grammy award had an unusual fate.

Instead of taking pride of place on the mantelpiece, the statuette ended up being used for a spot of gardening.

Flea shared the cute story about his oldest child, Clara Balzary, who is now 33.

When she was five years old she sneaked the iconic golden gramophone award out of the house into the garden.

She used it as a tool instead.

Flea told KROQ: “Grammys are awesome, but after we won our first Grammy, like three years later, my mom said, ‘Michael, where’s your Grammy?’, and I was like, ‘I don’t know, mom, I put it somewhere.’

“Months after that, my gardener came out of the backyard, in the garden, and you know how the Grammy looks like an old record player with the horn on it?" he began.

"My daughter had unscrewed it and was using it as a shovel for the garden. It had been out there in the dirt for the whole winter. It had been out in the dirt for the whole winter and stuff.”

Oops!

In total, Flea has won six Grammys so he could definitely spare one.

The band are back with a new album, 'Unlimited Love'.

They were also honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.