The ‘Lose Yourself’ rapper went to rehab for treatment for a dependency on medication and considered suicide at his lowest point and Eminem, 40, admitted his drug dependency almost killed him.<\/p>\n
Speaking in new documentary, ‘How To Make Money Selling Drugs’, he said: “When I took my first Vicodin, it was like this feeling of ‘Ahh.’ Like everything was not only mellow, but [I] didn’t feel any pain.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know at what point exactly it started to be a problem. I just remember liking it more and more. People tried to tell me that I had a problem. I would say ‘Get that f**king person outta here. I can’t believe they said that s**t to me. I’m not out there shooting heroin. I’m not f**king out there putting coke up my nose. I’m not smoking crack.”<\/p>\n
\u201cXanax, Valium, tomato, tomatoes, it’s same thing … F**k it, take it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking about one incident where he was rushed to the emergency room, Eminem \u2013 whose real name is Marshall Mathers \u2013 said: “Had I got to the hospital about two hours later, I would have died. My organs were shutting down. My liver, kidneys, everything.<\/p>\n
“They were gonna have to put me on dialysis. They didn’t think I was gonna make it. My bottom was gonna be death.”<\/p>\n
While the rapper is now clean, he admitted detoxing was a huge struggle.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cComing off everything, I was literally was up 24 hours a day for three weeks straight,” he says. “And I mean, not sleeping, not even nodding off for a f**king minute.<\/p>\n
“I had to regain motor skills, I had to regain talking skills. It’s been a learning process, I’m growing. I couldn’t believe that anybody could be naturally happy without being on something. So I would say to anybody ‘It does get better.’ \u201d<\/p>\n