Liv and Mia Tyler Recall Meeting for the FIrst Time at an Aerosmith Concert and Not Knowing They Were Sisters

Liv and Mia Tyler became emotional recalling their first meeting, revealing they didn’t know they were sisters at the time.

On the Sunday, April 13 episode of the iHeart Radio podcast Sibling Revelry With Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, Liv, 47, spoke with her younger sister Mia, 46, about the moment they first met. The half-siblings share father Steven Tyler, the frontman of classic rock band Aerosmith.

Liv and Mia recalled growing up separately in New Hampshire and Maine until they were eight and nine years old, when their mothers, Bebe Buell and Cyrinda Foxe, respectively, took them to the same Aerosmith concert.

Mia jumped in, revealing, “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?'”

Liv then continued to explain her complex childhood. She was partially raised by her grandparents in Maine during a tumultuous time in her father, Steven Tyler’s, sobriety journey. As a result, Liv was led to believe she was rock star Todd Rundgren’s daughter instead, as he often acted as a father figure throughout her childhood. Rundgren signed Liv’s birth certificate when she was born in 1977.

Liv revealed that she learned the secrets of her parentage and about her sibling Mia within short succession of each other. “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.”

The actress and model then got emotional. “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.”

Mia then recounted, “Axl [Rose] used to dedicate ‘Sweet Child o Mine’ to me like every tour, and he’d like bring me out on stage and be like ‘this is again to you.'”

Liv then remembered her side of this pivotal moment in her life. “I just remember standing there watching them play, looking and seeing this girl who looked exactly like me. 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.”

After the song dedication, Liv remembers her mother explaining their unique family dynamic.
“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.”

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While Liv then proceeded to build a relationship with her biological father and half sister, she also understood the emotional impact the revelation had on her surrogate father figure Todd Rundgren.

“I think it’s probably still very hard and painful and I don’t speak to him enough. I love him. I have brothers from him and I had a whole family with them,” Liv said of Rundgren, whom her mom Bebe Buell dated around the time she was born.

New episodes of Sibling Revelry drop weekly on iHeartRadio.