Just ask the beautiful model, Mia Tyler, who also happens to be the daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.

The 31-year-old says watching her father suffer from the powerful pull of addiction for the last 25 years has been hard, but a recent experience she had helped her understand more deeply the struggle he has endured.

Steven reportedly entered a rehab facility in December to get help for a painkiller addiction he started having after taking prescription painkillers for chronic knee and feet pain. This follows a 1986 rehab stint he did reportedly for a heroin addiction.

During a recent family visit and retreat Mia attended at the rehab facility Steven entered in December, she was able to forgive him and understand him better.

“They sat you down and you watched these movies and they taught you it’s really a part of the brain that makes it a disease, whether it’s gambling, shopping, heroin, booze, anything you are addicted to. I learned all these scientific facts I wish everyone could learn because you’d probably be a little more lenient on your loved ones who have struggled,” she says. “Learning that it was a disease was the biggest thing. I never thought of it that way. The fact that I understand now that addiction is actually a disease changes the way I look at him and people around me.”

Mia said the time there helped her forgive her father.

“I talked with him and the whole family talked and everyone feels so much better now. We can’t really blame him. We understand now that it was something out of his control all along. I love him. He is my dad after all. Hopefully he will learn the tools he needs to deal with his disease this time around. I think he will.”

Mia is the newest spokesperson for a cellulite-reducing supplement called CelluScience and an appetite-suppressant spray called FullFast, which she uses as part of her healthy-living lifestyle.

“I’m on a path right now to getting healthy. I’m a size 14 now and I want to get back to a 12. I don’t want to go any lower than that.”

She said the retreat helped her be more at peace with herself as well.

“One thing we did at the end is the counselor passed around a bag with rocks in it and we had to pick a rock but we were told the rock would pick you. I got the rock that had ‘serenity’ on it and I started bawling because it’s exactly what I need. I’m thinking of getting a tattoo now.”

As for the future, she’s optimistic about her father’s recovery and looking forward to the summer when she tags along with him to Download Festival in London where he’s performing with Aerosmith.

“It’s going to be such a cool experience. Besides the fact that dad pays for your hotel room, you get to see things differently when you go to see him play. Everyone thinks we live this big glamorous life, but we’re just a family from New Hampshire and we’re Italian and we love to sit around and eat and take pictures.”

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Lindsay was wearing a light-colored faux-fur vest over a black top and black leggings.

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Dina Lohan

Dina spoke to TMZ in more than a 20 minute interview taped in three parts about how Michael Lohan is hurting not only Lindsay but their other four children.

“It’s time now that someone has to speak out for my children because I not only have Lindsay, but I have four children who have to go to school everyday, and my son’s in college, gets ridiculed on the lacrosse field, so you know, it’s just got to stop,” Dina Lohan told TMZ in a phone interview.

Throughout the interview, Dina says that the tapes he has released are old – they are from before Lindsay went to rehab - and they are edited to be twisted the way he wants them to be.

When asked how Lindsay feels about what her father has done now releasing the audio tapes, Dina skirts the question mostly, but says they “all” feel very hurt, betrayed and scared. The whole family, including Lindsay, has security to keep Michael Lohan away.

Dina also is adamant that Lindsay is doing well.

“Lindsay is fine now, she’s wonderful,” Dina says.

The TMZ hosts very nicely tell Dina many people are rooting for Lindsay, but says there are many who are worried about Lindsay and how she’s doing, especially seeing her in the clubs night after night.

Dina made it perfectly clear that Lindsay is 23 and can go to clubs, but says Lindsay does have problems from a lot of the things she witnessed growing up.

Dina also goes deep into her past as a victim of domestic abuse.

“Lindsay knows in her heart that I’m a victim of domestic violence,” Dina says.

“She saw him hit me, she saw him slit his wrist in a bathtub full of blood, she saw him do things,” Dina told TMZ, saying the damage and pain is there, and it has to come out.

Dina also said the paparazzi makes it hard when they are following girls like her and Britney Spears around 24/7, ready to “push these kids over the edge.”

Because she had a criminal protection order against Michael during the times when these phone calls were made (when he was ordered by law not to contact her), Dina says the police or DA may be able to file charges. And don’t forget, Dina says, he’s behind on his child support too and they are looking into enforcement of that as well. She wouldn’t mind a gag order either.

“To me, it’s so hurtful to my children more than myself. I don’t care what he says about me. A child goes to a parent in a weak moment, and for them to eliminate that worldwide and do that to your own child is just inconceivable to me,” Dina told TMZ.

Dina also confirms that Lindsay hasn’t spoken to her father in months – and the only reason why he saw her a while back (after her burglary?) was when he barged into her hotel room.

After listening to Dina Lohan talk to TMZ, what do you think? What do you think Michael Lohan will do now?

Image: splashnewsonline.com (Dina Lohan taking her children to school in Long Island on Nov. 5)

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Despite Lindsay’s mom Dina Lohan’s critical interview with the New York Post, Michael Lohan said he will do what he has to do to help his daughter.

“As far as Lindsay is concerned, if she goes into a rehab, I will stop,” he told RadarOnline.com exclusively. “But if the lies continue and the prescription drug use doesn’t stop, neither will I.”

Michael Lohan said he started his battle to help Lindsay privately but was forced to go public “like Martin Sheen and others.”

“I wasn’t going to let people hear Dina’s drunken rants about Lindsay, and I certainly wasn’t going to let people hear anything about Lindsay, but now that Dina and Lindsay continue to lie and deny their problems, and even make up stories about me, NOW you will see and hear Lindsay’s calls and texts. I am NOT the liar, they are. Hopefully then, they will realize how deceptive and in denial they are and finally realize that lying and denial are part of their addictions,” Michael Lohan told RadarOnline. “I am sorry I had to take this route, but I have tried and tried to help Linds and I have been lied about long enough.”

Meanwhile, Lindsay’s recent Twitter rant about her father  makes it clear how she feels about him right now.

I know Lindsay fans just hope that her father isn’t right, though many fans think Michael Lohan  could approach the situation less publicly.

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