Liv Tyler shone a light on how her stepdad Todd Rundgren felt after learning that Steven Tyler was her biological father.
Recalling childhood memories during the Monday, April 14, episode of the “Sibling Revelry” podcast hosted by Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, Liv, 47, detailed how the news impacted her family.
After explaining that Steven, 77, forged a friendship with his ex, Liv’s mother, Bebe Buell, when Liv was age “8 or 9,” Liv said Steven arranged to meet Buell, 71, at “one of Todd’s shows” in Boston, which was “very painful for Todd.” (Rundgren, 76, was a member of the bands Nazz and Utopia, and performs as a solo artist.)
Liv explained that in learning that Rundgren was not the actress’ biological father, she believed that he took the news “so hard.”
“I think it’s probably still very hard and painful,” Live said. “I don’t speak to him enough, I love him and I have brothers from him and I had a whole family with them. But I was a kid, so it was really hard because he was mad at my mom and then suddenly Steven was there and we did a paternity test and it was positive and so we moved to New York. I think I was 11 or 12.”
The Stealing Beauty star added that it wasn’t until after she had moved from Maine to New York that she was allowed to discuss who her true father was. Reflecting on the years prior to the news coming out, Liv said that Rundgren was a dedicated father. “He took care of me as, like, he was dad,” she said before adding that she eventually felt resolved in knowing that she was surrounded by love. “I felt so much love,” Liv said. “I was able to soak up the love that I could.”
Steven Tyler and Liv Tyler in 2019 Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images
She added later in the podcast, “I remember sitting there for what felt like three days, but it was probably three hours and just basically coming to this conclusion at the end of like, ‘Woah, I have two dads, and all this love and maybe there will be two Christmases. They’re … so different and so lovely.”
Liv is mother to three children — son, Milo, 20, whom she shares with ex-husband Roy Langdon, and son, Sailor, 10, and daughter Lula, 8, whom she shares with ex Dave Gardner — and posted a rare glimpse inside her home life via Instagram in July 2024. Celebrating her daughter’s 8th birthday, Liv wrote, “Lula Rose, 8 years old on the 8th of July (born 8:48 p.m.). Happy happy birthday to our precious angel. You are the brightest light.”
The post was accompanied by several family snaps including one of her daughter surrounded by birthday balloons and presents.
