Well, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler was spinning us a yarn, it seems, when he told us last month that he had entered rehab simply to allow him time to recover from foot surgery. You'll remember, because we reported on it, that the singer, who got over his drug addictions twenty years ago, released a statement saying that he had entered the facility to be in a "safe environment" whilst his foot healed.
Now the singer has admitted that in fact he needed help because he was dependent on painkillers and sleeping pills, but it was apparently all due to the pain of the foot, so really, it was all about the foot. Tyler told the AP: "To have your feet done, to have your leg done, you have to be on narcotics. You have to be on sleep aids at night...I was off and running and I didn't like the me that was me. This was a month ago, so I just put the brakes on and checked into detox and just pulled the plug on all of it".