Tyler said he would send his friend Ray Tabano over the next day to take her shopping. Steven would call me every day to check in with me and I asked him for money to get groceries," she wrote of her situation. "I was alone and pregnant in the apartment with no money, no education, no prenatal care, no driver’s license, and little food. Tyler left within a few weeks to tour with the band. The fighting couple returned to their Boston apartment after a trip to meet the parents failed miserably. It was the fall of 1975, three years after they first met. I was subordinate to him as in a parent relationship and felt I had little control over my life," she wrote about feeling betrayed after Tyler said he would not marry her despite impregnating her. His guardianship of me complicated things further. "For the first time, I realized that I should not have been foolish enough to conceive a child outside of marriage with a man who might not be interested in a life-long relationship. Holcomb says she had no power at all in the unequal relationship at this point. Tyler's grandmother was also skeptical about the marriage between the two. He had backtracked out a marriage commitment after his father expressed concern about him marrying someone as young and immature as Holcomb. I had never been pregnant before, contrary to what Steven has written," she wrote. He threw my birth control pills off the balcony of the hotel where we were staying, into the street far below," she wrote about the events that led to her planned pregnancy. "I wanted children and began to believe he must truly love me since he had made himself my guardian and was asking to have children with me. Holcomb was still underage at this point and was taking birth control pills to avoid pregnancy while she was sleeping with Tyler. Within a few months of being in a live-in relationship, Tyler spoke of his desire to have a child. She described him as her "only hope" at that point and became "lost in a rock and roll culture" of sex and drugs.
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He said, 'I told her I needed them for you to enroll in school'."įrom that point onward, Holcomb belonged to Tyler. "I asked him how he had got her to do it.
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Holcomb did not believe that her mother would sign over guardianship to him and remembered feeling vulnerable knowing she was his ward. Tyler then contacted Holcomb's mother and got her to sign over guardianship to him. Funny when you know he abused a 16 years old girl. Steven Tyler (25) and Julia Holcomb (16)Īt the age of 70, Steven opened a facility in Memphis for girls who have been neglected or abused.