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Back in 2022, Eminem opened up about his past addiction and eventual recovery in an essay published by XXL. According to the “Lose Yourself” rapper, he started taking pills following the release of 1999’s The Slim Shady LP. Five years later, things took a turn for the worse after Em dropped another No. 1 album, 2002’s The Eminem Show, and had begun working on what would become 2004’s Encore. Eminem’s rise to stardom, back in 1999, made him a scourge of the syrupy late-nineties pop scene.
Back in 2011, the rapper also spoke how he became addicted to another drug – Ambien and that it gave him a four year long stretch of writer’s block. Eminem has been honest about his journey to addiction and he told in his 2013 documentary How To Make Money Selling Drugs how his addiction escalated. In 2007, he overdosed on methadone and the Grammy winner was told by doctors he was about “two-hours” from dying after the dosage he took was the equivalent of four bags of heroin. The hitmaker, 47, was also severely overweight at the peak of his addiction and has admitted that he weighed close to 230 pounds as a result of overeating – after prescription drugs left him with a hole in his stomach.
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My addiction didn’t start in my early days when I was coming up. We used to drink 40s on the porch and just battle rap each other. My drug usage started at the beginning of that first album.
We performed “You Don’t Know” on the show and then we did an interview afterward. One of the hosts was talking to me and I could not understand a word she was saying. 50 had to cover for me and answer every question.
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Cyrus shared in 2022 that she’s been in recovery for her Xanax addiction since 2020. “It gave me so much structure in the time that I really needed structure, because I didn’t want to just be sitting around and stirring in my brain,” she told Rolling Stone. In May 2023, the One Direction alum celebrated being 100 days sober.”I feel amazing,” he said at the time. “I feel really, really good, and support from the fans and everything has been really, really good.”
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What the fuck did Kendrick just put out,” he said. “I’ll hear some shit by them, and I’ll be like, Yo, I ain’t the best rapper right now. I need to fuckin’ get up, get back on my shit.” “That was the first time I ever realized I had a problem with drugs and alcohol,” Cooper recalled during a 2022 appearance on the Smartless podcast. “I didn’t take anything hard until I got famous,” he continued.
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So, if you don’t go to sleep on it, you get in this weird comatose state. I see what you’re saying, and I hear what you’re saying, but I don’t Psilocybin mushroom Description comprehend. If you watch back to that interview now, you can notice it. That’s when everyone around me knew, “He’s fucked up. Something’s wrong with him.” In an extensive piece for XXL Magazine, Eminem has offered a look back on his place in hip-hop and opened up about his struggles with drug addiction.
“Didn’t you ask the doctors when I started recording new s—, when I first started rapping again, and sent it to you, didn’t you say, ‘I just wanted to make sure he didn’t have brain damage?’ ” he asked. “I remember when I first got sober and all the s— was out of my system, I remember just being, like, really happy and everything was f—g new to me again,” he said about making the album. “It was the first album and the first time that I had fun recording in a long time.” When I look back at my catalog, the first three albums, I’m definitely proud of them. Sometimes I go back, and I listen to them if I’m in a spot where I need some inspiration.
“It wasn’t like I was stumbling around all day,” he admitted. “I was fully functioning — I wrote more songs then than I do now. That was the scary part.” “It was easier for me to say that I’m doing it for her because, at that time, I didn’t feel like I was sort of worth much,” he recalled of the early days of their relationship. “I didn’t care as much about hurting myself as I did about hurting her. So, initially it was easier for me to say, ‘I’m doing this for her.’ And now, I’m doing it for myself.” After publicly celebrating six years of sobriety on tour in 2018, the singer stunned fans later that same year with the release of the confessional single “Sober,” which revealed that she had relapsed. She said her friends at the time “kind of cosigned” her drug use and “it just kind of becomes this dark pit, bottomless pit.” But, during the pandemic, Cyrus said she was noticing challenges and felt she wasn’t emotionally present.
