Eminem recalls feeling like he was going to die after 2007 drug overdose
Eminem has revisited his 2007 drug overdose in his new documentary, STANS. In a scene from the film, the Detroit rapper opens up about feeling like he would die if he didn’t drastically change his life.
Slim Shady has been vocal about his addiction to Valium, Ambien, and Vicodin in the 2000s. He spoke more about his struggles in the documentary, detailing his battle with depression and how he woke up in the hospital, clueless.
“I got into this viscous cycle of, ‘I’m depressed so I need more pills,’ and then your tolerance gets so high you end up overdosing,” he said.
“I woke up in the hospital and I didn’t what the fuck happened. It seemed like I fell asleep, and I woke up with tubes in me and shit. I wanted to get up. I couldn’t move. After the overdose, I came home going, ‘Yo, bro, I need something.'”
Em admitted he felt like he was going to “die if I don’t do something.” Missing essential milestones in his daughter Hailie’s life inspired him to get clean.
“I had this video that they brought me because I missed Hailie’s first guitar recital,” he said. “The amount of guilt that I felt, I cried when I saw it because I was like, ‘Oh my God, I missed that.'”
He then asked himself, “Do you want to miss everything? If you can’t do it for yourself, then at least do it for them.”
Eminem was taking 20 pills a day around the time of his near-fatal overdose, but he’s now been sober since 2008.
The STANS documentary, released in cinemas on August 7th, “examines the complicated relationship between one of the world’s most private artists and his massive public persona.
“Through stylised recreations, rare archival footage, intimate interviews, and an exclusive original interview with Eminem himself, it offers a raw, loud, and revealing journey across his career — and the passionate audience that has grown with him.”