In Stansthe 52 -year -old American rapper returns to the dark period that lasted almost twenty years, between the 1990s and 2007.
Eminem confides. The American rapper, Marshall Bruce Mathers of his real name, broadcast last night an autobiographical documentary film in a unique session in the cinema. Titled Stansthe feature film traces the different stages of his career, launched in the late 1980s, through rare archive images, stylized reconstructions and exclusive interviews. Among the various subjects mentioned returns that of the consumption of drugs, of which the Missouri artist was dependent until 2007.
This addiction began towards the late 1990s, a period at which it took excessive quantities of Vicodin, Valium, or Xanax, originally used to relieve pain or excessive anxiety. She continued him until the end of the 2010s, a period at which the rapper decided to wean. “I had to relearn how to walk, speak and rap again”he said in his documentary, some 17 years after this dark period.
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The young grandfather, 52, talks about one of the most difficult moments of that time, namely the day he missed the birthday of his daughter Hailie Jade. “I cried because I said to myself:” Oh my God, I missed that “says the American artist. I kept saying to me: “Do you want to miss it again? You want to miss everything? If you can’t do it for yourself, you at least do it for them”. »» This painful memory led him to treat himself. He would then have promised to “Never do this again”.
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“It lit my life”
In 2022, the rapper also spoke about this in the columns of the magazine XXL. He said he called on a dozen dealers at a time to get medication. His addiction reached his highest point in 2006, when he learned the death of his professional friend. “I was all alone, at home, I was lying in my bed, I couldn’t move, I was looking at the ceilinghe explained two years ago. I was taking even more cachets. I couldn’t walk for two days, and my consumption flew. I didn’t want to feel anything anymore. »»
I understood that I was no longer ashamed of sobriety
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Today, through his documentary, Eminem is delighted to have defeated this addiction: “It had an effect. It lit my life. I understood that I was no longer ashamed of sobriety. I started to consider it as a superpower and I was proud to have managed to stop. »»
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