Steven Tyler’s relationship with daughter Liv Tyler has taken some severe twists and turns over time.
Initially, Liv’s mom, mannequin Bebe Buell, led her to consider that one other rock legend, Todd Rundgren, was her organic father due to her concern over Steven’s admitted drug use within the late Nineteen Seventies.
Liv ultimately discovered the reality and cast a bond with Steven after he’d reached out to reconnect along with her mom. Liv later found she had a half-sister, Mia Tyler — from Steven’s marriage to mannequin Cyrinda Foxe — when the 2 ladies met at a Weapons N’ Roses and Aerosmith live performance throughout their preteen years.
Alongside the way in which, the Tyler household has opened up about their distinctive bond and the weird circumstances round Liv’s delivery.
Hold scrolling for a glance again at what Steven and Liv have mentioned about their relationship over time:
1977
Liv was born on July 1, 1977, however her mom, Buell, advised fellow rocker Rundgren he was the new child’s organic dad. Rundgren signed Liv’s delivery certificates and was a father determine throughout her upbringing.
1978
Steven tied the knot with first spouse, mannequin Foxe, in 1978. They welcomed daughter Mia in December 1978, simply over a yr after Liv’s delivery.
Steven and Foxe divorced in 1987.
Late Nineteen Eighties
In a 2008 Every day Telegraph profile, Liv detailed how she got here to appreciate Steven was her organic father. She first met the Aerosmith rocker when she was “8 or 9” after a newly sober Steven reached out to her mother to make amends.
When he attended one in all Rundgren’s live shows someday later, Liv observed she shared bodily similarities with Steven. She confronted her mom, and Buell confirmed that Steven was certainly Liv’s organic father.
“I’ve extra empathy for my mother and father now,” she mentioned in 2008. “As a toddler I didn’t perceive why that might occur, how that might occur. All people had a special interpretation [of the situation] and the way they participated. And you realize what — I’m OK with that. All that issues is no matter type of relationship I can have with them now.”
In his memoir, Does the Noise in My Head Hassle You?: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir, Tyler wrote that he first discovered of Liv’s existence round “Christmas of 1980.” The musician reunited with Buell earlier than a Portland, Maine, live performance throughout a interval the place he was nonetheless struggling along with his sobriety.
“She’d gotten pregnant in Germany and we’d someway damaged up after the tour,” he clarified. “I assume I used to be in denial about it being my baby, and he or she’d had nearly sufficient of me and determined Todd Rundgren can be a greater father. Bebe confirmed me footage of child Liv and we each cried earlier than I went on.”
1992
Steven Tyler and his daughter Liv Tyler. Ron Davis/Getty Photos
Liv’s burgeoning modeling profession was profiled by Leisure Tonight when she was 14 years previous. The younger mannequin revealed she briefly thought-about following in dad Steven’s musical footsteps after their assembly just a few years earlier.
“Once I was youthful, I needed to be a rock star,” she admitted. “It ended after I noticed how horrible the enterprise was. Not horrible, however I noticed what occurred to my father with medicine and I noticed what lots of people went by way of.”
Talking out. Steven Tyler is denying allegations that he sexually assaulted a minor within the Nineteen Seventies. The Aerosmith frontman, 75, responded to the claims — which have been made in a December 2022 lawsuit — in a prolonged submitting final week, arguing that the plaintiff, Julia Misley, consented to their sexual relationship. Within the courtroom […]
As an alternative, Liv satisfied her mom to assist her get into the modeling business. Buell was a mannequin herself, having posed for Playboy in 1974 and showing in campaigns for famend business govt Eileen Ford.
In her ET profile, Liv joked that Steven was having issue maintaining along with his daughter’s modeling profession.
“He mentioned, ‘The tables are turning now,’” she teased. “We have been on the cellphone the opposite evening and he was saying, ‘I can’t consider it! I can by no means discover you!’ He mentioned, ‘It was once you [were] searching for me in every single place and now it’s the opposite approach round. I’m at all times searching for you!’”
1993
At age 16, Liv was forged reverse future Clueless star Alicia Silverstone, additionally 16 on the time, within the music video for Aerosmith’s hit single “Loopy.” Surprisingly, Liv wasn’t solely forged primarily based on her connection to Steven, because the music video’s director, Marty Callner, had independently noticed her in a Pantene industrial.
“[The director] went to my dad and requested for permission,” Liv recalled in a 2019 interview on SiriusXM.
The “Loopy” video depicts the 2 as highschool buddies skipping faculty for a Thelma & Louise–model street journey. Liv mirrored on the whirlwind success of “Loopy” throughout her 2019 radio interview.
“It was nuts as a result of I might stand up for varsity and put MTV on within the morning, and there was the countdown and the video would come on and I’d get actually nervous,” she recalled.
1994
Steven Tyler and Liv Tyler. Mark Sullivan/WireImage
Steven known as himself “a realist” as a father whereas talking to Rolling Stone concerning the blunt tactic he’d used when speaking to his then-teenage daughters, Liv and Mia, about intercourse.
“You’ll be able to educate your kids effectively and hope you’ve taught them some good sense. Once I was a child there was no AIDS. Now there may be. ‘AIDS will kill you. You gotta bear in mind. Take this rubber,’” he mentioned. “I had an extended discuss with Liv and Mia about it. They have been 15. I mentioned, ‘What’s goin’ on?’ They advised me issues that they by no means advised anyone else. And I assumed that was nice as a result of I’m open with sexuality. I advised them stuff I received caught up on, how the second that you just come you’re in such bliss that you possibly can suck the chrome off a tow hitch. I advised my daughters that stuff.”
Steven mentioned he warned his daughters, “You continue to wish to flaunt it? Flaunt it. However if you happen to carry your skirt, each little boy’s tongue’s gonna wish to be up there. And if you happen to smoke pot, know that it will possibly result in heroin prefer it did with me.”
“There are some commercials that throw me for a loop. A father can’t discuss to his daughter about intercourse,” he continued. “To me, that’s the farthest factor from actuality. They actually undergo that joke — ‘Ask your mom.’ That’s precisely why your daughter went out and received pregnant. You didn’t speak about it. It’s as clear because the balls on a tall canine.”
2015
Throughout an look on The Jonathan Ross Present, Liv shed new mild on what life was like earlier than her discovery about her organic father.
“My mom was very younger when she had me and there was a bit of little bit of confusion about the place I got here from,” she defined to host Jonathan Ross. “I used to be very liked and really effectively taken care of by all of my household, which was great.”
A fortuitous assembly between Liv and Steven’s daughter Mia — who was born throughout his 9-year marriage to Foxe — helped her notice that they should be associated.
She went on, “I type of figured it out [that Steven is my father] as a result of he seems to be precisely like me and I’ve sister, named Mia, who’s a yr youthful than me. I noticed her, standing on the facet of the stage at a live performance, and actually, it was like a twin. She seemed precisely like me.”
Blake Vigorous as soon as pulled an epic prank on former Gossip Lady costar and ex Penn Badgley that Steven Tyler was his dad — and he believed it. “I get an electronic mail, identical to, ‘There’s this press merchandise we’re making an attempt to kill however simply so you realize, someone thinks, or Steven Tyler thinks, he’s your dad,’” […]
“I checked out my mother and he or she had tears in her eyes. I type of put all of it collectively,” she added.
Liv lamented that Rundgren typically wasn’t publicly given the credit score he deserved for being an “wonderful” father determine.
“Individuals solely ever speak about Steven they usually at all times inform all of those tales,” she complained. “However [Todd] has been such a phenomenal, great affect in my life.”
2017
Steven Tyler and Liv Tyler. Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/FilmMagic
Liv took half within the family tree docuseries Who Do You Assume You Are? in 2017, the place she uncovered deep musical roots inside her household.
By way of her search, Liv found that Steven’s great-great-great-great-grandfather Robert Elliott Sr., was a military drummer throughout the Warfare of 1812, after which Robert’s son turned a drummer throughout the Civil Warfare. This revelation was notably significant for Steven as a result of he too began out as a drummer earlier than switching to vocals.
“I’m so loving this,” Steven advised his daughter. “It explains it. That is the most effective.”
2019
Liv briefly hesitated on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen when requested by a caller about “essentially the most embarrassing factor” Steven had ever finished in entrance of her.
“I’m used to each of my mother and father being such wild, eccentric individuals however typically they are saying issues which are so cringey,” she declared.
The Armageddon actress ultimately admitted that Steven had as soon as made a romantic cross at her shut good friend Cameron Diaz.
“He was positively flirting along with her,” Liv confirmed, earlier than teasing, “Normally, I’m simply telling him that his trousers are too tight across the package deal. He wears a thong typically beneath his costumes! That’s a bit bizarre.”
Liv went on to say, “One time … I used to be within the automotive with 5 buddies and in got here my dad, ass-first. He took his trousers off, sat his butt on a towel, somebody pulled [the pants] off, they have been moist or one thing, and there was perhaps a leopard [print] thong.”
2020
Steven Tyler and Liv Tyler. Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic
Liv bonded along with her father when she made her singing debut with the basic Emmylou Harris monitor “Til I Achieve Management Once more” on an episode of her Fox sequence 9-1-1: Lone Star. The episode revolved round Liv’s character, paramedic Michelle Blake, rediscovering her ardour for singing after the disappearance of her sister.
“[Steven] listened and he mentioned he cried. He was on the airplane, taking off when he heard it,” she revealed on The Kelly Clarkson Present.
2025
Showing on the “Sibling Revelry” podcast with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, Liv spoke in depth about her two father figures. She acknowledged that Rundgren struggled for a few years after studying he wasn’t her organic dad.
“I believe it’s most likely nonetheless very onerous and painful,” Liv mentioned. “I don’t communicate to him sufficient, I like him and I’ve brothers from him and I had an entire household with them. However I used to be a child, so it was actually onerous as a result of he was mad at my mother after which out of the blue Steven was there and we did a paternity take a look at and it was constructive and so we moved to New York. I believe I used to be 11 or 12.”
She continued, “He took care of me as, like, he was dad … I felt a lot love. I used to be ready to take in the love that I may.”
Liv talked about that she “grew up the identical approach” as sister Mia regardless of not realizing about each other. The sisters ultimately met backstage at an Aerosmith and Weapons N’ Roses live performance as preteens.
“I simply remembered standing there, watching [Guns N’ Roses] play, trying and seeing this lady who seemed precisely like me. We actually had the identical outfit on,” Liv mentioned. “I checked out my mother. … She simply began crying. My mother simply, like, bawled.”
Reflecting on her uncommon background, Liv grew emotional as she clarified, “I believe because the story goes, [my mom] known as Todd and mentioned she was pregnant. He requested her to come back residence to the place they lived in Woodstock in upstate New York. Principally, he very courageously and lovingly mentioned, ‘This baby wants a father, and I would be the father.’”
“That is the place all of it will get a bit of bit complicated as a result of I believe there was type of an settlement that perhaps I might by no means know [about Steven] or perhaps I must be 18. Then that was damaged,” she mentioned.
