She first met Steven when she was around 8 or 9 years old at one of Rundgren’s concerts and recalls him buying her a Shirley Temple at the bar. Liv figured out her biological father’s identity long before she reached adulthood, however. Tupac Shakur, His Mother, and His Song “Dear Mama”īefore knowing he was her father, Liv felt a strong connection with Steven.Tim McGraw’s Rocky Relationship with His Dad Tug.Nicole Richie’s Surprising Adoption Story.

She has said that she and Rundgren “made a pact that he would be Liv’s father, and if it ever became an issue, we’d tell her at 18.” Rundgren knew there was a chance he wasn’t Liv’s father, but he signed her birth certificate, gave her his last name, and stepped in to raise her as his own anyway.īuell had decided to keep the paternity a secret from Liv because of Steven’s reported drug addiction at the time. Buell, who was the Miss November 1974 Playboy Playmate, had a brief fling with Steven in late 1976, which ultimately resulted in their daughter’s birth in New York City the following July. Up until that point, Liv believed that Utopia singer Todd Rundgren was her biological father. Soon afterward, she confronted her mother, model and musician Bebe Buell, and discovered that her suspicion was correct.

“My mom has a diary entry or something where I wrote, ‘I think Steven is my father,’” she explained in 1997. Liv Tyler was 11 years old in August 1988 when she looked up at a poster of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler on her bedroom wall and came to a realization that would rock her entire existence.

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