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Steven Tyler Completes Rehab
A story surfaces that someone checks into rehab and all of a sudden everyone thinks it's drugs...well so did I when Steven Tyler checked in last week. In my 25 years in radio I've heard lots of reasons for people checking into rehab but a foot problem? That was a first for me, hey I'm just glad that was all he was in for. Aerosmith have made some of their best music since the band cleaned up, I'd hate to see that go down the drain. Rock on Mr. Tyler! Steven's daughter Liv has some things to say about her Dad's recovery in the article below, it's from Starpulse.com.
Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler is fine and recovering from a foot problem that forced him into rehab, according to his actress daughter Liv. The singer checked into a facility in Pasadena, California, last month, prompting speculation he had slipped from sobriety, 20 years after he kicked hard drugs.
Tyler later revealed he was in rehab on doctor's orders because of a foot injury.
And Liv insists her father is on the mend.
She says, "He had a foot problem, but he's fine. There's this funny thing my father says when I ask him how he is. He says, 'I'm F.I.N.E. F'd up, insecure, neurotic and emotional.' So he's F.I.N.E. fine!"
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