HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Rock star Steven Tyler says his recent rehab stint was "to correct long-time foot injuries resulting from his trademark athletic performance onstage."
"The doctors told me the pain in my feet could be corrected but it would require a few surgeries over time," the Aerosmith frontman said in a statement released Thursday. "The 'foot repair' pain was intense, greater than I'd anticipated. The months of rehabilitative care and the painful strain of physical therapy were traumatic."
"I really needed a safe environment to recuperate where I could shut off my phone and get back on my feet," he continued. "Make no mistake, Aerosmith has no plans to stop rocking. There's a new album to record, then another tour."
On May 21, TMZ reported that the 60-year-old rocker had checked into Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., for substance-abuse treatment.
The facility is the same clinic in which Dr. Drew Pinsky, the host of VH1's "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew," practices.
Tyler, who is the father of actress Liv Tyler, has long battled substance-abuse problems. He collapsed onstage during several performances in the early 1980s, a time in which he suffered from a heroin addiction.
"Of course, I did way too many drugs. I sunk to my knees and lost everything," he once told Britain's Independent newspaper.
In 2006, Tyler also revealed that he had been diagnosed with hepatitis C, having undergone 11 months of treatment after the disease was first discovered three years earlier.
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