Liv Tyler Recalled Discovering Steven Tyler Was Her Real Dad And Meeting Her Sister, Mia, For The First Time — Not Knowing They Were Related

Sisters Liv and Mia Tyler conscionable appeared connected the Sibling Revelry podcast with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, and the communicative of however they archetypal met is genuinely thing from a movie script.

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For context, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has four children with 3 antithetic women: helium shares his eldest child, Liv, with Bebe Buell, Mia with his archetypal ex-wife, Cyrinda Foxe, and Chelsea and Taj with his 2nd ex-wife, Teresa Barrick. The 4 siblings person adjacent relationships today. However, it wasn’t until Liv was astir 10 years aged that she discovered she was really a Tyler and not a Rundgren, arsenic she’d antecedently been led to believe.

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First, we request to rewind to sometime successful 1976 erstwhile Liv’s mom, Bebe, was introduced to Steven; the 2 hooked up, and she got pregnant. Speaking connected the latest occurrence of Kate and Oliver Hudson’s podcast, Liv recalled that her ma was successful her aboriginal 20s astatine the clip and was not comfy with Steven’s cause use, truthful she decided to permission and rise her babe with her ex, Todd Rundgren.

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“I deliberation she got a small spot frightened erstwhile she realized however overmuch drugs my dada was doing. I deliberation arsenic the communicative goes: she called Todd and said she was pregnant… and basically, helium precise courageously and lovingly said, ‘This kid needs a father, and I volition beryllium the father,’” Liv recalled. Todd signed Liv’s commencement certificate erstwhile she was born, and looking backmost she suggested that determination whitethorn person been an “agreement” that she should “never know” the existent individuality of her father.

So, Liv was calved successful July 1977 and was raised successful Maine, believing that Todd was her biologic father. Meanwhile, successful 1978, her commencement father, Steven, joined Cyrinda Foxe, and the mates welcomed their archetypal kid successful December of that aforesaid year. Mia was raised successful New Hampshire, and it wasn’t for different 8 years oregon truthful that the sisters met for the archetypal clip erstwhile their moms brought them to the aforesaid Aerosmith concert.

“I retrieve determination were nary kids backstage. So we played hard that night. And we were astatine this VIP area, extracurricular of the greenish rooms, and we were conscionable like, you know, doing our 8 and nine-year-old thing, and this instrumentality woman came up, and she was like, ‘Oh my god, you girls are truthful cute. Are you guys sisters?’... And we pretended we were sisters,” Mia remembered, arsenic Liv recalled they “looked similar twins.”

Recalling the communicative of their archetypal meeting, some sisters fought tears. “Guns n’ Roses were opening for Aerosmith,” Liv said. “We had driven to the gig astatine a spot called Great Woods… I was truthful excited due to the fact that I conscionable loved Guns n’ Roses. And connected the broadside of the signifier was this 1 lasting there.”

“I conscionable retrieve lasting determination watching them play, looking and seeing this miss who looked precisely similar me. Like, we virtually had the aforesaid outfit on. We had some had perms, similar spiral perms, pinkish frosty lipstick,” she continued. “We were some wearing an Aerosmith performance T-shirt with achromatic leggings and Reebok high-top sneakers. I looked, and I was like, Wait, that’s me. It was truly weird. It was virtually similar looking successful the mirror, seeing your double.”

Liv was taken aback by however overmuch Mia looked similar her, and erstwhile she looked implicit astatine her mom, it became evident that she was emotional, too. “She conscionable started crying. My ma bawled, and I was like, ‘Is Steven my dad?’” she recalled, revealing this was erstwhile she yet learned the information astir her family. “We sat connected a seat astatine an outdoor amphitheater, and she told maine the full communicative successful the astir sincere, beauteous way… And past we went backstage aft the amusement determination was Mia, and we met for the archetypal time.”

And portion the find was precise breathtaking for the girls, it was arsenic challenging for Liv to larn that Todd wasn’t her existent dad. Speaking astir Todd today, she said: “I deliberation it's astir apt inactive precise hard and painful, and I don't talk to him enough. I emotion him. I person brothers from him and I had a full household with them.”

Honestly, idiosyncratic needs to marque a movie astir this family. You tin perceive to Mia and Liv’s afloat quality connected the Sibling Revelry podcast here.