That’s also when I was starting to battle addiction. People obviously didn’t know it yet, but I was starting to realize inside that it was happening, and I always tried to keep it on the low and keep it together as much as I could. “I almost died from an overdose in 2007, which kind of sucked,” he continued, before addressing his 26-year-old daughter, whom he shares with ex Kim Scott. “I realize what an honor it is right now to be here up here tonight, and what a privilege it is to do the music that I love,” the “Lose Yourself” rapper began his acceptance speech. The rapper, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night, asked daughter Hailie Jade Mathers to block her ears while talking about his addiction struggles. “There are a lot of rappers who have complicated rhyme schemes that are out today, that have been out over the years.”
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“Ryan has been battling from alcohol addiction for many years and unfortunately it has become a destructive pattern for him,” his rep told E! “He has acknowledged that he needs professional assistance to overcome his problem and will be getting help immediately.” In 2018, she recalled battling her addictions to sex and alcohol. “I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction,” she wrote on Instagram two weeks later. When her sister visited her in the summer of 1998 and brought along prescribed painkillers for a rib injury, Curtis said she hit her rock bottom. “I knew she had them in her suitcase in our guest room closet,” she told the publication, crying at the memory.
My best would’ve been good enough if the leaks hadn’t happened. But I released what I had at that point in time, and I feel that put a kind of a mark on my catalog. Encore did some decent numbers, but I was never that concerned with numbers. I was more so worried about what people think about the album. Critics and fans were important to me, and they were always at me about that project.
“Had I known it was methadone, I probably wouldn’t have taken it.” Eminem opened up about the way his struggle with drug addiction was a constant, if unseen, presence throughout much of his early career in a new as-told-to in XXL. Eminem has opened up about his addiction and sobriety many times over the past fourteen years, but the most comprehensive interview he’s done on the subject is likely a Rolling Stone piece by Josh Eells from 2011. It became a misstep and I struggled to get over the fact that I didn’t do my best.
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“Celebrated my 10 years yesterday,” the rapper wrote on Instagram – which received more than 1.6 million likes. On Saturday, in between headlining Coachella, he posted a photo of himself with an Alcoholics Anonymous coin which signifies sobriety. Eminem has revealed he’s been sober for ten years.
- I remember saying, “If I could just get with Dre, man, my God that’d be so crazy. He’s so fuckin’ ill.” Three weeks later, I was at Dre’s house.
- The problem was, in the recording process as I was getting more addicted to drugs, I was in more of a goofy mood.
- “I discuss it every now and then when it makes sense. I’m 39 years sober. I got sober Feb. 23, 1985.”
- “I had fuckin’ 10 drug dealers at one time that I’m getting my shit from. Seventy-five to 80 Valiums a night, which is a lot,” he added.
- I flipped to the last page first and XXL was dissing me.
- Rosenberg recalled the Relapse track “Underground” as one of his favorites on the album and evidence that Eminem was “spitting like you were back at the hip-hop shop.”
“There are a lot of songs still that did not leak out from Relapse.” “I had f—in’ 10 drug dealers at one time that I’m getting my s— from. Seventy-five to 80 Valiums a night, which is a lot.” “It wasn’t like I was stumbling around all day,” he admitted. “I was fully functioning — I wrote more songs then than I do now. That was celebrities that have fetal alcohol syndrome the scary part.”
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When things started happening for me, I was getting a lot of heat, being a White rapper, and XXL wrote something about that. I remember going to one of those newsstands in New York when the magazine had just started out, and I bought that and a couple of other rap magazines. I flipped to the last page first and XXL was dissing me. I don’t even know if I read the whole article—I was used to reading things like that about me—but it hurt because I felt they didn’t know me to make that kind of judgment. I wanted to be respectful because what I do is Black music. I knew I was coming into it as a guest in the house.
In a 2022 interview on the Paul Pod podcast, Eminem explained to longtime record executive Paul Rosenberg about what his recovery from his overdose was like. Eminem is not only one of the most popular rappers of all time, but he’s also famously sober. In the early- and mid-2000s, he was addicted to a variety of prescription pain killers. After a methadone overdose almost killed him in 2007, he knew it was time to get clean. The album comes out and it was definitely a wake-up call, a slap in the face, a sobering moment, because I was on a roll and then somehow, I got off this roll. I didn’t know where to fuckin’ pick things back up and I was angry at a lot of things, including the songs leaking because it changed the entire landscape of that album.
Eminem opened up about his accidental overdose to The New York Times in 2011, and said his addiction was at one point so bad that he was taking up to 20 pills a day. He has since replaced “addiction with exercise,” he told Men’s Journal in 2015. “Didn’t you ask the doctors when I started recording new s—, when I first started rapping again, and sent it to you, didn’t you say, ‘I just wanted to make sure he didn’t have brain damage?’ ” he asked. “I remember when I first got sober and all the s— was out of my system, I remember just being, like, really happy and everything was f—g new to me again,” he said about making the album. “It was the first album and the first time that I had fun recording in a long time.”
“I don’t know how many times we did it, but it was so easy to go back and forth to do it,” he said. The last time he went to Tijuana to pick up, they witnessed the vehicle in front of them getting pulled over and searched. “We were scared shitless, but we got through,” he continued. “And when I say we had the motherlode. Our pants were frickin’ stuffed with pills. I don’t know how many we had.”
