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Minka Kelly, is the daughter of Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay and Maureen Dumont Kelly, and was primarily raised by her mother. Kelly had a challenging upbringing, raised primarily by her single mother and facing financial difficulties, but she was determined to pursue her acting dreams. While Kelly has appeared in various TV projects and movies, she is best known for her role as Lyla Garrity in Friday Night Lights, which brought her mainstream appeal, and her recent role in Euphoria has contributed to her resurgence in popularity.

It is common that the children of famous parents become famous themselves, and Minka Kelly is no exception. The actress is the daughter of Rick Dufay, who was a guitarist for the rock band Aerosmith in the 1980s. Even though Kelly's father was involved in the entertainment industry, her mother Maureen Dumont Kelly raised her as a single mother. After graduating from high school,...

Minka Kelly recalls the first time she met her dad — former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay — and the cycles of addiction that ensnared her parents in a new excerpt from the audiobook of her memoir, Tell Me Everything, out today, May 2.

Kelly was three when she first met Dufay, who spent the early Eighties playing with Aerosmith, replacing Brad Whitford between 1981 and 1984. Father and daughter’s first meeting was orchestrated by Kelly’s mother, Maureen, who showed up at an Aerosmith concert in Los Angeles and spent the show pelting Dufay...

Minka Kelly says it was a long journey to repair her relationship with her father Rick Dufay.

The Aerosmith guitarist wasn’t around for most of her childhood as he was about to embark on a tour with the band and wasn’t ready to be a father at the time she revealed in her memoir Tell Me Everything.

“My mom was on her own for a very long time, so she was just surviving and doing her best and maybe not totally well-equipped to have and raise a child,” she told People. “But she did it anyway because she wanted me and she loved me to the best of her ability.”

While her mother Maureen did reunite with Dufay for a brief period, the relationship didn’t last long as she moved into an on-again off-again relationship with a man named David who would act as Kelly’s father figure at times.