Posted
September 26, 2006 at
1:31 am by:
Sparkle-C
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has been secretly battling hepatitis C — a serious viral infection of the blood, often associated with dirty needles, that can lead to chronic liver disease. During a period when Aerosmith was taking a break, Steven’s doctor put him on an 11 month interferon treatment program that Tyler described by saying, “it about killed me.â€? An admitted recovering drug addict, Tyler told “Access Hollywood’” that after a year of interferon treatments, “It is nonexistent in my bloodstream … where it’s like a complete cure.”
It was a really crappy year for Steven, during this horrible treatment that would wake him up in the middle of the night with violent nosebleeds, his marriage to Teresa Barrick also fell apart. Just like Pamela Anderson, Steven is sort of becoming a celebrity spokesperson for the disease. He says, “Hepatitis C is the one that, of all the people in this room, at least three have it and don’t know it. It’s the silent killer. I may go on ‘Oprah’ and talk about this.” Oprah gets all the good celebrity disease stories.

Source: NY Daily News