Liv Tyler details 'emotional' moment she realized Steven Tyler was her father after seeing 'lookalike' sister at a concert
Liv Tyler has been speaking about the 'emotional' moment she realized Steven Tyler was her father after meeting her sister for the first time at a concert.
While you might meet who may end up being your future partner at a concert, bumping into your sister for the first time at a concert is not something you expect to happen.
On an episode of the iHeart radio podcast, Sibling Revelry With Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, Tyler and her younger sister Mia spoke about the emotional moment they realised they were sisters, which led to Tyler learning more about her biological father.
The pair are half-siblings and share the same dad, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, but their upbringings could not have been any different.
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Speaking about the incredible moment they met, Mia explained: "I remember there were no kids backstage. 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 eight and nine-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?'
"That particular night that she's [Mia] talking about, Guns n' Roses were opening for Aerosmith. It was the beginning of their song 'Welcome to the Jungle'. We had driven to the gig at a place called Great Woods."
Starting to become emotional, she added: "We got tickets and we went to the audience and we were standing, and Guns n' Roses was playing and I was so excited because I just like loved Guns n' Roses. And on the side of the stage was this one girl standing there."
Liv noticed Mia looking exactly like [her]', which led to her mother bursting into tears and the truth about her father being revealed.
"Like we literally had the same outfit on. We had both had perms, like spiral perms, pink frosty lipstick. We were both wearing a Aerosmith concert t-shirt with black leggings and Reebok high top sneakers.
"I looked and I was like, 'wait, that's me'. It was really weird. I was literally like looking in the mirror seeing double," she said.
"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. 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."
Liv and Mia grew up living separate lives in different parts of the world with their mothers, Bebe Buell and Cyrinda Foxe.
But they are together at last now.
Callum Jones