Eminem is 11 years sober

When I wrap it up in a nutshell, I realize that all the heaviest drug usage and addiction spanned only about five years of my life. It felt like a long time when it was happening, but looking back at it now, it wasn’t that long of a time for my problem to explode as it did. Then the thing happened with Proof and my addiction went through the fuckin’ roof.

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“And when I say we had the motherlode. Our pants were frickin’ stuffed with pills. I don’t know how many we had.” Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, recalled Rosenberg asking his doctors whether the rapper may have suffered permanent brain damage as he learned to make music and rap while sober for the first time in years in the wake of his overdose. The country star has been sober for nearly a decade, but it was a hard-fought road getting there. His addiction to alcohol and pain pills began soon after graduating from high school and didn’t abate when his career began to take off.

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1. Early in his career, he said him and some friends frequently went to Tijuana, Mexico to purchase drugs such as Vicodin.
2. To make enough money to survive, so that I wouldn’t have to work a regular job.
3. The Fight Club star spent years struggling with alcohol before Cooper helped him get sober.
4. Eminem celebrated 14 years of sobriety in 2022, and for him, he’s never looked back.
5. “I was fully functioning — I wrote more songs then than I do now. That was the scary part.”

“I knew deep down it wasn’t for me,” she shared. “And it just felt so extreme to have to say, ‘But none?’ But none. If you’re allergic to something or have an anaphylactic reaction to something, you don’t argue with it. So I stopped arguing with it.” “I walk around and I see aspects of it that I’ve never seen before. I’ll look at a building and I’ll go, ‘My God, I never noticed that about that building, those doors.’ I have lunches and coffee and my friends.”

And every time the best rappers drop an album, it changes the landscape of the fuckin’ game. At least it does for me, and I’m like, I need to be able to rap like that. Because if I don’t do that, someone’s going to come behind me, probably in the next couple of years, and wash me. 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 was able to downplay my addiction and hide it for a while until it got really bad. And also, at that time, so much shit was happening with the whole 50 beef with Ja Rule. We started feuding, going back-and-forth, and I’m making all of these diss records and shit. So, I’m coming off The Marshall Mathers LP and going into Encore when my addiction started to get bad. I kinda fell off the map a little bit and didn’t explain why I went away.

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“There might be enough songs but they’re terrible songs,” he added, clarifying there is no second Relapse project. “If they didn’t even make the album on Relapse and I feel how I feel about Relapse, then that should tell you something.” “I mean, there’s probably enough to make another Relapse 2,” Eminem said.

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But he also managed to alter stereotypes about the criminality of the rap genre in the eyes of the what was eminem addicted to general public. He dominated the portable CD players of turn-of-the-century youth, who emulated his style by dying their hair blonde and donning tank tops and oversized pants. “If I had been black, I wouldn’t have sold even half of it,” he acknowledged in one of his songs. The problem was, in the recording process as I was getting more addicted to drugs, I was in more of a goofy mood. So now, I go make “Ass Like That,” “Big Weenie,” “Rain Man,” all those silly songs, which I’m writing in fuckin’ seconds at that point in time.

So, it inspired songs like “Stan” because to have fans is a dream come true, but it’s also so bizarre and so surreal. Even as I sit here now, I still trip out in my head about how it got to this level. All I ever really wanted to do was to be a respected MC. To make enough money to survive, so that I wouldn’t have to work a regular job. That ties into my competitive spirit, and I don’t know when that’s going to go away, if ever.

“I discuss it every now and then when it makes sense. I’m 39 years sober. I got sober Feb. 23, 1985.” Since making the lifestyle change, Holland noticed he “could sleep better” and “handle problems better.” “And then you would just reach that moment where you’re like ‘Wow, I shouldn’t have had that last beer,'” the actor continued. “And you wake up the next day and you have a terrible headache.” Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, posted a photo on Instagram April 20 of his recovery coin with the inscription, “Unity, service and recovery.” Eventually, Eminem lost 90 lbs and, per Billboard, he weighs 140 lbs today.