Liv Tyler said she tested positive for COVID-19 on the last day of the year after making it “all the way through 2020 keeping myself and my family safe.”
The actress, producer and singer took to Instagram on Friday to talk about the “wild two weeks” of being sick with COVID-19, sharing a sweet photo of herself as she cuddled her youngest children, daughter Lula Rose, 4, and son Sailor Gene, 5.
Tyler started the caption saying that she’s a really “private and shy” person who doesn’t usually talk about her family life.
However, “this is a big one and I feel we all need to share our stories, to share information , to gather facts and awareness and mostly to know we are not alone in this,” the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy star added.
Tyler said that after spending last year doing everything she could “to protect my wolf pack and follow the rules to protect others,” on the morning of “the last day of 2020… boom it took me down.”
“It comes on fast, like a locomotive,” she wrote, adding that besides the physical symptoms of the potentially deadly disease, she also had “feelings of fear, shame and guilt,” wondering where she got infected, and whether she’d infected anybody.
A feeling that she called “terrifying.”
“Luckily the rest of my family and bubble were negative,” she added.
Tyler wrote that COVID-19 affects everyone differently, but “it floored me for 10 days in my bed,” she said, adding that besides “the physical aspects [there are] also emotional and psychological ones too.”
“Being isolated in a room alone for 10 days is trippy to say the least. Waking up to news of our capital being under attack. Was it real or the twilight zone? Ohhh no it was real!!!”
Tyler, who’s the daughter of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, also noted how hard it was to be away from her children.
“But they visited my window and called up to me and I [watched] them play outside. Such a gift. They sent little messages and drawings under my door. Reminders of what’s on the other side. What to get better for,” she wrote.
In September, the 43-year-old actress announced she would not return for the second season of the Ryan Murphy-produced Fox drama “9-1-1: Lone Star” in which she played one of the leads, due to coronavirus concerns.
At the time, The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Tyler, who was commuting from London to Los Angeles to shoot the show, “may be the most high-profile actress to opt out of a series thus far.”
