As his fans probably know, Tyler caused a minor scandal in the mid-1970s when he convinced the parents of a 14-year-old girl to appoint him as her legal guardian and moved her into his Boston apartment. When she got pregnant, “friends” convinced the couple to get an abortion. “It was a big crisis,” Tyler admitted. “It’s a major thing when you’re growing something with a woman, but they convinced us that it would never work out and would ruin our lives.” Some sense of responsibility (or curiosity?) compelled him to watch the procedure, with an unanticipated result: “[T]hey put the needle in her belly and squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated. In my mind, I’m going, Jesus, what have I done?”Read the rest.
(HT: T-Wax)
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