Eminem can be seen above on the cover of the June/ July 2009 Real Rap issue of Vibe magazine.
Preempting that you will ask me for answers, let me say that no, I have no damn idea why this man cannot seem to take a decent picture of late. It’s not like he is the ugliest guy in the game right now, he was almost doable at one point. Now, if I were to do it with him, I might be forced to test drive with someone else’s first.
Check out the Vibe interview below and also watch his the full video for ’3 a.m.’.
Eminem reveals he suffered from a devastating drug addiction that led to him downing as many as 20 Vicodin, Ambien and Valium in a day. “The numbers got so high, I don’t even know what I was taking.”
Following his first stint in rehab in 2005, the rapper, 36, tells VIBE he nearly overdosed after an acquaintance gave him unidentified blue pills, which a doctor later told him were actually methadone. “My doctor told me the amount of methadone I’d taken was equivalent to shooting up four bags of heroin,” Eminem says, noting that had he known, “I probably wouldn’t have taken it. But as bad as I was back then, I can’t even say 100 percent for sure.”
Shortly after detoxing, he suffered a knee injury that required surgery, but because of his drug abuse, he was not prescribed pain killers. “I started looking around my house to see if I had a stash box of Vicodin … I’m ransacking my house, finally find something in the basement, in a little napkin, seven and a half Vicodin – the big extra strength ones – and a few Valium.”
With his pill addiction spiraling out of control again, Eminem suffered his second relapse before accepting he suffered from drug addiction. “It never once hit me that drug addiction runs in my family. Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it,” he says. (via People)
Image cover/ interview credit to Vibe magazine, check it out in stores soon.
I think he’s still pretty hot on film, it’s just the print pics that aren’t doing him justice.
Glad that Eminem is finally coming clean about his pill addiction. I hope that his story will help others.
I didn’t make it all the way through the video, my child like impatience won out. I shall give it another try.
is it me, or does this almost not look like him?
He looks like crap here too, I think.
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