As he plans his triumphant return to the top of the music world, Eminem opened up about his drug addiction woes in a recent article with Vibe magazine.
The 36-year-old tells: “It’s no secret I had a drug problem. 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.”
Talking about a near-overdose experience back in 2005, the hip-hop star continues: “My doctor told me those mysterious new pills were methadone, which is used to wean heroin addicts off dope. 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.”
After suffering a knee injury and not being prescribed to pain pills due to his past history, Eminem tells: “I started looking around my house to see if I had a stash box of Vicodin. 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.”
Finally realizing that he truly is an addict, the “3AM” hitmaker reveals: “It never once hit me that drug addiction runs in my family. Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”
Completely sober and ready to realease his new album, which hits stores on May 19, Em says, “I wanted to make an overall statement — I’m back. It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn’t recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober ... I don’t know the last time I shot a video sober, without drinking or taking anything. It’s been years.”
Continuing on, he ends: “I almost feel like a little kid again with rap. I wanna play around with different flows. If I don’t feel like it’s what I’m fully capable of, if there’s one weak line, I wanna change it. 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.”
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