Liv Tyler is opening up about her sophisticated household dynamics.
The actress, 47, mirrored on how her stepdad, Todd Rundgren, was impacted by discovering her organic father was Steven Tyler.
On Monday’s episode of the “Sibling Revelry” podcast, Liv shared that the Nazz musician, 76, took the information “so hard.”
“I think it’s probably still very hard and painful,” Liv admitted to the brother-sister hosts, Kate and Oliver Hudson.
“I don’t speak to him enough, I love him and I have brothers from him and I had a whole family with them. But I was a kid, so it was really hard because he was mad at my mom and then suddenly Steven was there and we did a paternity test and it was positive and so we moved to New York. I think I was 11 or 12,” she stated.
Liv recalled that she wasn’t allowed to debate who her bio dad was till she and her mother, Bebe Buell, relocated from Maine. She had been below the impression Todd was her organic father, as he additionally signed her delivery certificates when she was born.
Earlier than the information broke, the “Stealing Beauty” star credited Todd for being a hands-on father.
“He took care of me as, like, he was dad. I felt so much love,” Liv reminisced. “I was able to soak up the love that I could.”
“I remember sitting there for what felt like three days, but it was probably three hours and just basically coming to this conclusion at the end of like, ‘Woah, I have two dads, and all this love and maybe there will be two Christmases. They’re … so different and so lovely.”
Additionally becoming a member of Liv in the course of the podcast episode was her half-sister Mia, whom Steven has together with his ex-wife, Cyrinda Foxe. The pair mirrored on assembly for the primary time at an Aerosmith live performance after they have been round 8 or 9 years previous.
“I remember there were no kids backstage,” Mia, 46, stated. “So we played hard that night. And we were at this VIP area, outside of the green rooms, and we were just like, you know, doing our 8 and 9-year-old thing, and this fan lady came up and she was like ‘Oh my god, you girls are so cute. Are you guys sisters?’”
Liv recalled confronting Bebe concerning the look-alike lady she met that night time.
“I looked at my mom, and she just started crying. My mom was bawling, and I was like, ‘Is Steven my dad?’ and she just burst,” the star stated. “She took me to a bench and we sat on at an outdoor amphitheater, and she told me the whole story in the most sincere, beautiful way.”
Steven can be dad to Chelsea, 36, and Taj, 34, from his second ex-wife, Teresa Barrick.
That wasn’t the one Steven-related story Liv and Mia shared, because the latter revealed that their well-known father favored to “hide his pill” within the scarves he’d embellish his microphones with.
In the meantime, hosts Kate, 45, and Oliver, 48, have been raised by their mother Goldie Hawn and stepdad Kurt Russell. In November, Oliver opened up concerning the “Silkwood” star, 74, providing to undertake them within the Eighties.
“Kurt came into my life when I was 6, 5 or 6, kind of the same, and essentially he raised me,” Oliver stated on their podcast.
“There was a moment when he asked us, myself and Kate, if we wanted to be adopted and we said ‘no,’” he added. “And not that we were, you know, very aware of what it even f–king meant, we were 6 and however old, or 12, I don’t even remember the age but we just said ‘We don’t need it. The love is right there.’”
Oliver added, “I’m the man I am today because of him.”
