Eminem: “Drugs were about to kill me”

Eminem He chose the documentary “Stans” (here all the info), released for a few days, to tell without filters, as well as his link with fans, also the darkest phase of his life, which he has never hidden: drug addiction. A wound that Em has faced in different songs and projects, but which in “Stans” is useful to make it clear when what in many people venerate as a “God” or a “idol” actually has the same identical, if not deeper, dark areas. In a raw and direct narrative, the Rapper of Detroit, in this last work released in preview at the cinema, photographs the period included Between 1999 and 2008when he regularly abused Vicodin, Valium, Ambia and Xanax, trapped in a vicious circle of depression and pills. “I found myself in the hospital, confused and frightened, with the tubes in the body,” he says in the documentary.

“I lost my daughter Hailie’s birthday while I was unconscious. I cried and asked myself: ‘Do you really want to lose all this?'”. The breaking point came between 2007 and 2008, when an overdose of methadone put him a step away from death. From there began a long rehabilitation path, during which he had to literally re -tear, speak and even rap. “My writing had worsened – he admits – when I started writing again, it was exciting … I started composing songs very quickly“. This process of rebirth deeply influenced its 2009 album,” Relapse “, which translated the pain, fragility and determination related to its recovery in music. Today, at 52, Eminem celebrates over 17 years of sobriety and speaks with pride. “I am no longer ashamed of being sober,” he says. “I started treating sobriety like a superpower And I boasted that I managed to stop. ” “Stans” is not only the story of a fall and a rise, but a message of hope For those fighting with addictions. A powerful testimony of how, even when it seems too late, you can still go up.