Dee Snider's daughter, Chey, was recused from Peru after being stranded there for a week following the country's border shutdown amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Saturday, the Twisted Sister rocker opened up about the escape, noting that he went to a former top official to make it happen.
"My publicist… just happened to go to camp with the son of [former Secretary of Homeland Security] Tom Ridge. … He was able to help get my daughter out," he told Page Six.
Back in March, Dee said his daughter was stranded solo in Peru after going there for a weeklong "spiritual retreat." Shortly after she arrived in South America, the country's president issued a 15-day border closure to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Dee said Chey was terrified and helpless with no way out. Then, after an emotional week, Chey, 23, was rescued by the US Embassy in Lima and given a military security detail to whisk her to a local airport. There, a chartered plane was waiting to take her and several other American travelers to Miami. It would take her around two weeks to finally get back to Los Angeles, where she lives.
"The first thing she sent [when she was back in the US] was a picture of her at Miami airport. She was in a too-cool-for-school pose," he told Page Six, "And I said, 'You know what — I'm so grateful to see that attitude because it could've been stolen from her by bad people."