Despite being one of the world’s biggest rock stars in the 1980s he said he was almost broke from spending so much money on cocaine and heroin.
‘I blew 20 million. I snorted my Porsche, I snorted my plane, I snorted my house in that din of drugs and booze and being lost,’ he writes in his autobiography to be released this week
Tyler, one of the judges on American Idol, said drugs were such a big part of his life that he took them on stage while he was performing with Aerosmith.
‘I kept my medicine cabinet on stage, in a fourteen-inch drum head, the bottom of which contained . . . one Dixie cup with a straw and blow in it and the other with Coca-Cola and Jack Daniels in it,’ said the 62-year-old.
Tyler, father of actress Liv Tyler, went into rehab several times and admits that he is lucky to be alive considering his drug and alcohol abuse.
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‘I snorted my Porsche, my plane and my house’: Steven Tyler reveals how he blew $20m on drugs and nearly ended up broke