Steven Tyler Enters Rehab

Steven Tyler just made a shocking announcement.  Not up to a month before Aerosmith was set to re-launch their Las Vegas residency, the band disclosed an unexpected message to fans: after more than 10 years of sobriety, frontman Steven Tyler had relapsed

On Tuesday, May 24, the rocker’s band said in a statement they’ll be canceling their June and July Las Vegas shows while Steven Tyler, 74, who has been open about his struggles with substance abuse goes for treatment over a relapse spurred on by foot surgery and its subsequent pain management.

“As many of you know, our beloved brother Steven has worked on his sobriety for many years,” the group said in a statement shared on Instagram. “After foot surgery to prepare for the stage and the necessity of pain management during the process, he has recently relapsed and voluntarily entered a treatment program to concentrate on his health and recovery.”

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While Tyler “focuses on his well-being,” the band which includes Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, Joe Perry, and Brad Whitford, and noted that they hope to return to the stage in September.

“We are devastated that we have inconvenienced so many of you, especially our most loyal fans who often travel great distances to experience our shows,” the message continued. “Thank you for your understanding and for your support for Steven during this time.”

Steven Tyler — What Tyler Said About His Addiction

Tyler told GQ in 2019 that when he first began exploring with drugs in the mid-1960s, smoking marijuana was when he was still a teenager.

Nevertheless, Tyler retained control over his life while Aerosmith broke through in the 1970s, things took a turn at the end of ten years, and because there were no proper avenues he could use to seek help, Tyler’s substance abuse problems worsened.

“Aerosmith made it from ’72 to ’79 not necessarily stoned, but beautiful… then we all became very f—ed up. There were no such things as rehabs; there were mental institutions,” he told Haute Living in 2019.

The rocker didn’t discriminate when it came to drugs, telling PEOPLE in 1988 that he took “heroin, coke, Valium, anything that anyone came near with.”

“I loved to get high so much, I fell into the well. I got so clouded up I didn’t know what this band was all about, didn’t realize how great it was,” he said.

Tyler added to GQ: “It absolutely works for a while. But then things go wrong. You become addicted, it’s something you do all the time, and suddenly it starts influencing your greatness.”

“We believed that the road to wisdom was through excess,” he continued. “But it got really bad in the ’80s… What happens with using is: It works in the beginning, but it doesn’t work in the end. It takes you down. There’s nothing but jail, insanity, or death.”

Steven Tyler — On Getting Sober 

Tyler made several attempts to seek help in the ’80s, telling Haute Living he “went away” in 1984 and 1986 but “didn’t really get it.”

It wasn’t until his bandmates intervened in 1988 that his treatment stuck.

“There was a moment in ’88 where management and the band pulled an intervention on me. They thought, ‘Get the lead singer sober, and all our problems would be over,'” Tyler told the outlet.

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“So, I got sober, and you know it took me many years to get over the anger of them sending me to rehab while they went on vacation,” he continued. “But today because of that moment… I am grateful and owe a thanks to them for my sobriety.”

Tyler elaborated on the intervention to GQ, saying he was essentially given an ultimatum, but initially feared his bandmates “were trying to brainwash” him and strip him of his creativity.

“It was an intervention with the band: If I don’t go away to rehab, then the s—’s over,” he said. “And it was interesting that I was being told by a bunch of guys that were still getting f—d up. But I’m grateful that that happened. ‘Cause I would have never seen the light.”

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