{"id":137682,"date":"2011-10-28T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T09:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=137682"},"modified":"2011-10-28T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T09:21:42","slug":"steven-tyler-substance-issue-not-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/28\/steven-tyler-substance-issue-not-the-issue.html","title":{"rendered":"Steven Tyler: Substance Issue &#8216;Not the Issue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though Steven Tyler has openly admitted to abusing drugs in the past, he assured the world this morning that his recent bathtub slipping incident most definitely did not involve a relapse. As he explained on NBC&#8217;s Today show, he only &#8220;started to get sick,&#8221; and then &#8220;just fell on [his] face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[&#8216;Substance abuse] is not the issue,\u201d said Tyler during a call into Matt Lauer yesterday morning on \u201cToday\u201d from Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople thinking that is natural and normal, it still bothers me,\u201d said the \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d judge, who went public a few months ago about tripping on his 12 steps. \u201cBut it\u2019s something I have to deal with for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe flew last night from Paraguay after that incident and (now) we\u2019re in Argentina for two hours. And anyone knows anyone who uses substances wouldn\u2019t be up at this hour having a talk with Matt Lauer and the rest of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyler\u2019s tumble in the shower, he explained, was caused by a bout of \u201cMontezuma\u2019s Revenge\u201d which is known to leave its victims dehydrated, the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/track\/inside_track\/view\/2011_1028tyler_substance_abuse_not_the_issue\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Boston Herald<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got nauseous and started to get sick,\u201d the rocker told the NBC morning man. \u201cI fell on my face and just passed out. I woke up with the water running on me and I didn\u2019t know where the hell I was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext thing I know my tour manager was calling the American Embassy, we found the best hospital and it was like one-stop shopping,\u201d said the frontman, who had four stitches over his eye, some plastic surgery and a tooth implant before he hit the stage during his make-up concert in Paraguay on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShort of having my leg torn off, people are going to expect me to hit the stage no matter what,\u201d said Steven, who managed to rock out on the harmonica during the concert, despite a new tooth and a busted lip. \u201cI pulled myself up by my bootheels, and went out on stage, wore my sunglasses for the first song, and I took \u2019em off and the crowd roared because they knew that I had fallen down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only did I break my face, but the next night we broke the house record,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Aerosmith hits the stage tonight in La Plata, Argentina, and Sunday in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The band will tour through South America and Japan until Dec. 10. Steven\u2019s sophomore season of \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d premieres Jan. 22.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Steven Tyler has openly admitted to abusing drugs in the past, he assured the world this morning that his recent bathtub&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33876,33886,33887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}