Liv Tyler Believes It’s ‘Still Very Hard and Painful’ for Todd Rundgren to Think About Her Discovering Steven Was Her Father

Liv Tyler is opening up about her relationship with with her father Steven Tyler and stepdad Todd Rundgren.

During an appearance on Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, the Armageddon actress recalled finding out the Aerosmith frontman was her real father — and how that impacted 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.

“He took care of me as [if] he was Dad,” she added of Rundgren, now 76. “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 confirmed Steven, now 77, was her father at age “11 or 12” when she got a paternity test done. Years before, however, she attended one of his concerts and her mother, now 71, spilled the news.

“It was layers. 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,” she recalled.

Liv added that she came “to this conclusion” of “wow, I have two dads and all this love.”

“I just was really excited about it because they’re all so different and so lovely,” she said, before adding that there came a point when she was older where she needed “therapy.”

“[When] you get older… your life starts to formulate and then you’re like, ‘Wait, I need to deal with this s—,'” she said.

When Liv was born in 1977, Steven was struggling with drug addiction and Rundgren agreed to sign Liv’s birth certificate. She’s been open about having two fathers in the past, calling Todd her “spiritual father” in 1992 and explaining how Steven supported her during the birth of her son Sailor in 2017.

“Both my fathers are unconventional. They are like unicorns or wizards,” she told The Guardian in 2017. “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,” Liv told the outlet. “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.”

Meanwhile, in 1997, Liv opened up about feeling like Steven was her father — before she knew that he was.

“Strangely enough, when I first met my dad … I didn’t know he was my dad and I fell in love with him. I put his poster on my wall,” she told Interview magazine in 1997. “I would talk to him on the wall … My mom has a diary entry or something where I wrote, ‘I think Steven is my father.’ I had the same feelings for Todd.”