The truth about Steven Tyler’s addiction journey

While Steven Tyler’s music career flourished, he fell into a deep addiction, every American Addiction Center. “It’s more or less the right thing to do,” Tyler said GQ of his hard-working parties. “I don’t think any band knows what it’s like to be sober,” he said. Tyler admitted to drinking too much and using a variety of drugs including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and LSD. However, because it’s considered rock and roll style, Tyler doesn’t believe he has a problem.

Instead, Tyler claims he believes drugs and alcohol have helped his creative process and allowed him to create hit songs. “It worked perfectly for a while. But then things didn’t go as planned,” he admits. “You get addicted, that’s what you do all the time, and suddenly it starts to affect your greatness,” he told the magazine.

In the end, things got so bad for the singer that his bandmates were forced to speak up. The band organized an intervention for Tyler in the 80s and put him in rehab. After the intervention, Tyler received help with his addiction problems and remained sober a decade later. Sadly, he was no longer sober.