Steven Tyler Talks About Snorting Lunesta

Posted on Fri Apr 29th, 2011 12:05pm PDT       By X17 Staff

Steven Tyler lightheartedly opened up about some darker issues Thursday: his history with substance abuse.

The rocker and American Idol judge was a presenter at the Prism Awards in LA, which honor accurate depictions of substance abuse and mental health issues in the media.

"Is this a room full of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts?" Tyler shouted to the applauding crowd. "Then I'm right at home."

"Richie and I would have gotten a Grammy from Beelzebub for all the drugs we took," Tyler said about songwriter Richie Supa, who he was presenting the award to. The two wrote "Amazing" together in 1992.

"I was snorting f***ing Lunesta; doing Nepalese Temple Balls."

Only an icon like Tyler could cite drugs we haven't even heard of.

Tyler's been in the press plenty lately - we're guessing because his memoir, Does The Noise In My Head Bother You? A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir, comes out May 3.

Read excerpts from the tell-all, including Tyler talking about his cocaine use, after the jump.

“Once you become a rock star—something you’ve prayed for fervently since you were sixteen, making promises to sleazy saints and strange goddesses of the night—all bets are off. After you’re famous, it’s all simple and brutal; you’re either loved across the board for things you did do…or sneered at for things you didn’t do—or vice versa. Either way you become a dartboard for other people’s fears, doubts, and insecurities, and right there in the bull’s-eye are the two terrible tabloid twins: sex and drugs.”

“The coke bingeing got so bad and blatant. ... One of the things we always put in our riders was that the promoter had to provide in the dressing room a full-length, six-foot-long mirror. I would take the local promoter’s rep into the dressing room and he’d say, ‘Well, there’s the six-foot mirror you requested, Steven.’ And I’d say, ‘I can see the mirror all right, but where the f***’s the three-foot razor blade?’”