Liv and Mia Tyler turned emotional recalling their first assembly, revealing they did not know they had been sisters on the time.
On the Sunday, April 13 episode of the iHeart Radio podcast Sibling Revelry With Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, Liv, 47, spoke together with her youthful sister Mia, 46, in regards to the second they first met. The half-siblings share father Steven Tyler, the frontman of traditional rock band Aerosmith.
Liv and Mia recalled rising up individually in New Hampshire and Maine till they had been eight and 9 years previous, when their moms, Bebe Buell and Cyrinda Foxe, respectively, took them to the identical Aerosmith live performance.
Mia jumped in, revealing, “I keep in mind there have been no youngsters backstage. So we performed arduous that night time. And we had been at this VIP space, outdoors of the inexperienced rooms, and we had been similar to, you recognize, doing our eight and nine-year-old factor, and this fan girl got here up and she or he was like ‘oh my god, you ladies are so cute. Are you guys sisters?'”
Liv then continued to clarify her advanced childhood. She was partially raised by her grandparents in Maine throughout a tumultuous time in her father, Steven Tyler’s, sobriety journey. In consequence, Liv was led to imagine she was rock star Todd Rundgren’s daughter as an alternative, as he usually acted as a father determine all through her childhood. Rundgren signed Liv’s start certificates when she was born in 1977.
Liv revealed that she discovered the secrets and techniques of her parentage and about her sibling Mia inside brief succession of one another. “That specific night time that she’s [Mia] speaking about, Weapons n’
Roses had been opening for Aerosmith. It was the start of their track ‘Welcome to the Jungle.’ We had pushed to the gig at a spot known as Nice Woods.”
The actress and mannequin then obtained emotional. “We obtained tickets and we went to the viewers and we had been standing, and Weapons n’ Roses was enjoying and I used to be so excited as a result of I similar to cherished Weapons n’ Roses. And on the facet of the stage was this one woman standing there.”
Mia then recounted, “Axl [Rose] used to dedicate ‘Candy Baby o Mine’ to me like each tour, and he’d like deliver me out on stage and be like ‘that is once more to you.'”
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Liv then remembered her facet of this pivotal second in her life. “I simply keep in mind standing there watching them play, wanting and seeing this woman who regarded precisely like me. Like we actually had the identical outfit on. We had each had perms, like spiral perms, pink frosty lipstick. We had been each carrying a Aerosmith live performance t-shirt with black leggings and Reebok excessive prime sneakers. I regarded and I
was like, wait, that is me. It was actually bizarre. I used to be actually like wanting within the mirror seeing double.”
After the track dedication, Liv remembers her mom explaining their distinctive household dynamic.
“I checked out my mother, and she or he simply began crying. My mother was bawling, and I used to be like, ‘is Steven my dad?’ and she or he simply burst. She took me to a bench and we sat on at an outside amphitheater, and she or he informed me the entire story in essentially the most honest, stunning method.”
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Whereas Liv then proceeded to construct a relationship together with her organic father and half sister, she additionally understood the emotional affect the revelation had on her surrogate father determine Todd Rundgren.
“I feel it is in all probability nonetheless very arduous and painful and I do not converse to him sufficient. I really like him. I’ve brothers from him and I had an entire household with them,” Liv mentioned of Rundgren, whom her mother Bebe Buell dated across the time she was born.
New episodes of Sibling Revelry drop weekly on iHeartRadio.
