Eminem: “I almost died.”
Eminem opens up to Vibe Magazine about his past drug addition that left him overdosed on pills. He also reveals that this is the first time he has recorded sober in seven years!
“My doctor told me those mysterious new pills were methadone, which is used to wean heroin addicts off dope,” he told the mag in its forthcoming “Real Rap” issue.
“Had I known it was methadone, I probably wouldn’t have taken it. But as bad as I was back then, I can’t even say 100 percent for sure. My doctor told me the amount of methadone I’d taken was equivalent to shooting up four bags of heroin. Even when they told me I almost died, it didn’t click. It’s no secret I had a drug problem,” he said. “If I was to give you a number of Vicodin I would actually take in a day? Anywhere between 10 to 20. Valium, Ambien, the numbers got so high I don’t even know what I was taking.“
While he has had a public battle with his mother, he goes on to say that his own addiction has helped him understand her.
“I started looking around my house to see if I had a stash box of Vicodin,” he said. “I’m ransacking my house, finally find something in the basement, in a little napkin, seven and a half Vicodin — the big extra-strength ones — and a few Valium.” He relapsed, and soon admitted he was an addict.”It never once hit me that drug addiction runs in my family,” he said. “Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”
He has new drug and we get the benefit of that, he adds “Rap was my drug. It used to get me high and then it stopped getting me high. Then I had to resort to other things to make me feel that … now rap’s getting me high again.”Addiction is one hell of disease, but I am so glad he back on the way up. Relapse is due out May 19th!
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