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Aerosmith's Steven Tyler Checks Into Detox Center After Relapsed From Drug Addiction

2022-05-25T13:00:00.871Z


The American rock band has been forced to cancel the concerts it had scheduled until next September The frontman and lead singer of the rock band Aerosmith, Steven Tyler, has voluntarily entered rehab after suffering a relapse in his drug addiction after more than a decade of abstinence. This has been announced by the American group through a statement published this Tuesday on its Instagram account, in which they have also informed their followers of the suspension of the concerts they had sche


The frontman and lead singer of the rock band Aerosmith, Steven Tyler, has voluntarily entered rehab after suffering a relapse in his drug addiction after more than a decade of abstinence.

This has been announced by the American group through a statement published this Tuesday on its Instagram account, in which they have also informed their followers of the suspension of the concerts they had scheduled for the months of June and July in Las Vegas, as well as the rest of the shows planned until next September.

"As many of you know, our dear brother Steven has worked to stay sober for many years," they wrote about the 74-year-old singer.

"After foot surgery to prepare for the stages and the need for pain control during the process, he has recently relapsed and has voluntarily entered a treatment program to focus on his health and his recovery."

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Later, the group announced the cancellation of their upcoming concerts and apologized to their fans for the inconvenience caused.

“We are very sorry to inform our fans and friends that we must cancel our first set of Las Vegas residency dates this June and July while he focuses on his well-being.

We will continue with our 2022 dates beginning in September, and will let you know of any updates as soon as we can.

We are devastated to have inconvenienced so many of you, especially our most loyal fans who often travel great distances to enjoy our shows."

The band concluded the statement by thanking their fans for their "understanding and support of Steven during this time."

Tyler has spoken on more than one occasion about his battle with drugs.

He began experimenting with them in the mid-1960s, using marijuana as a teenager, he revealed in an interview for the US edition of

GQ

in 2019. “The thing about drugs is that they work at first, but not at the end. .

They take you nothing but jail, madness, or death."

Over the years, his addiction problems worsened, to the point of using "heroin, cocaine, Valium and anything that someone came close with," as he acknowledged in 1988 in

People

magazine .

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“The early 1980s were terrible, and drugs brought us down.

I was the first to receive treatment ”, he revealed in an interview for the

Haute Living

header in 2019, where he said that he entered a detoxification center for the first time in 1988, encouraged by his bandmates, who insisted that he should seek help to treat your addiction.

“There was a point in '88 where the management and the band stepped in on me.

They thought, 'Get the lead singer sober and all our problems will end.'

So I stayed sober and it took me many years to get over the anger of being sent to rehab while they went on vacation,” he recalled.

"But today I thank you for my sobriety."

The rock star – father of actress Liv Tyler – acknowledged in the aforementioned medium that while drugs gave "crudeness" to his performances, addiction inhibited his "greatness".

"All the magic you thought was there when you were high disappears when you're sober," he said, celebrating that he had been off drugs for nine years at the time, after a serious relapse in 2009 that led to his second admission to rehab.

“Half measures are useless, and be careful with half truths because with drugs and alcohol you are likely to be wrong.

It's not about me anymore.

It is about conveying the message that people can die if they do not understand this.

What makes me an alcoholic is not how much I drank or how often I drank.

It's what happens to me and who I become when I do it, and I don't like that guy."

Source: elparis

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