In a new episode of the Bad Bad Babydad podcast, Steven Tyler’s daughter, Mia, recalled how she once brought her father to tears with a Slipknot album.
Speaking of her teenage years and her then-relationship with her dad, Mia said:
“When I was feeling really like I wanted to express to my dad how I felt, and I didn’t know how to tell him, maybe my coming out of my emotions; the same way someone would come out… I was so scared to tell him that I was depressed and upset in life and that maybe he caused it and my mom him leaving me with all that stuff.”
The ‘Slipknot’ Album As A Medium Of Expression
She then talked about the time she gave the Aerosmith singer a copy of the ‘Slipknot’ album, explaining:
“I didn’t know what to do, and the Slipknot album, the very first one, was just ‘Slipknot.’ I gave it to him. I bought him a copy, and I said, ‘Listen to this if you want to understand how I feel. Listen to this and months went by.”
Tyler’s Emotional Reaction To The Record
Later, Mia remembered how Tyler called her a few months later, sobbing:
“He just sat on with his Walkman, and he listened to the whole album and just cried in the woods. He called me, and he was like, ‘I’m so sorry,’ and like we had this whole thing, but I’ve told Corey [Taylor] that story because Corey’s a huge Aerosmith fan.”
She opened up about Taylor’s reaction and her response:
“He loves my dad, and it was like his world got flipped upside down, but I was like, ‘You don’t know how much you helped me have a relationship and a bond with my dad.’ And that music is so heavy, and it was such a release because I was so upset and just so like just pissed off at life.”
Exploring Family Dynamics In ‘Creating Myself’
In her 2008 memoir, ‘Creating Myself,’ Mia again opened up about her relationship with her father. She recalled the time they started discussing the past, which they both found interesting. They were trying to understand their past experiences. Mia mentioned that they can openly talk about almost any topic, including her mom, and added the following about her bond with her late mother:
“She was a sore, confusing, frustrating, and sad subject for both of us. My dad had divorced her, and I’d never liked her. Scratch that. I was angry at her for being so unhappy and not doing anything about it. When she died from brain cancer in 2002, I was relieved to know that she no longer had to suffer, but goddamn it, I was pissed at her for having wasted so much time being miserable and feeling sorry for herself.”
After staying married for almost ten years, Tyler and Cyrinda Foxe divorced in 1987. One year later, the singer tied the knot with Teresa Barrick, with whom he stayed married until 2006.
You can watch the rest of her conversation below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m76JU0zts0c
