Liv Tyler sought therapy to process Steven Tyler paternity news
Liv Tyler was initially overwhelmed with feeling loved after finding out Steven Tyler was her biological father but eventually sought therapy to deal with the news.
Liv Tyler needed therapy in the years after finding out her dad is Steven Tyler.
The 'Lord of the Rings' actress found out when she was "11 or 12" that the Aerosmith frontman was her biological father, having believed until then it was musician Todd Lundgren, and though at the time she was appreciative of all the "love" in her life, she needed help to process the news years later.
Speaking to Kate and Oliver Hudson on their 'Sibling Revelry' podcast, she said: "[When] you get older... your life starts to formulate and then you're like, 'Wait, I need to deal with this s***."
Liv's mom, Bebe Buell, broke the news during an Aerosmith concert and she recalled sitting for "what felt like three days" trying to come to terms with the shock afterwards.
She said: “We sat on a bench at this outdoor amphitheatre and she told me the whole story in the most sincere, beautiful way. I just was there with it and then we went backstage after the show.
“The first wave was shock. After that concert, we went home and my mom had a chaise lounge in front of a window. I remember sitting there for what felt like three days, but it was probably three hours, and coming to this conclusion of ‘Whoa, I have two dads and all this love.’
“It was very weird. I felt so much love. I was able to soak up the love that I could. I just was really excited about it because they're all so different and so lovely."
The 47-year-old star admitted the situation is still "very hard and painful" for Todd - who was dating Bebe around the time Liv was born and signed her birth certificate amid Steven's struggles with drug addiction - and she thinks she should speak to him more often.
She said: "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.
"He took care of me as [if] he was Dad. He was always on tour too and traveling... He had another partner and two boys. So I would go and visit them and go on trips with them."
Liv - who has Milo, 19, with ex-husband Royston Langdon and Sailor, 10, and Lula, eight, with former fiance Dave Gardner - previously admitted she is "so grateful" to Todd for stepping up to raise her.
She told The Guardian newspaper: "Both my fathers are unconventional. They are like unicorns or wizards.
"They are musicians through and through. The way they think is just different. Their eccentricities have made me more practical and more normal, in a way.
"I'm so grateful to Todd for choosing to be a father figure to me. It's a big thing for a man to say, 'I know this kid might not be mine, but I still want to be her father.' Although he and my mom weren't together, he was always a very stable, loving force in my life."
