Eminem opened up concerning the painful second he realized drug dependancy had value him time together with his daughter.

Eminem revealed the emotional aftermath of his 2007 overdose and the guilt that adopted after lacking his daughter’s music recital throughout his restoration.

In the brand new documentary STANS, the Detroit rap icon recounted the second he realized the toll his drug dependancy had taken on his household life.

The movie, which explores the difficult bond between Eminem and his viewers, includes a uncooked account of the rapper’s near-fatal expertise with methadone in December 2007.

“I got into this vicious cycle of, ‘I’m depressed so I need more pills,’ and then your tolerance gets so high you end up overdosing,” he said in the film. “I woke up in the hospital and I didn’t know what the f### happened. It seemed like I fell asleep, and I woke up with tubes in me and s###. I wanted to get up. I couldn’t move. After the overdose, I came home going, ‘Yo, bro, I need something.’”

The turning level got here when he found he had missed his daughter Hailie Jade’s first guitar recital. Hailie, now 29, has since constructed a profession as a social media persona.

“The amount of guilt that I felt, I cried when I saw it because I was like, ‘Oh my God, I missed that,’” Eminem stated. “Do you want to miss everything? If you can’t do it for yourself… then at least do it for them.”

The Hip-Hop legend has remained sober since April 2008, a milestone he has acknowledged publicly over time.

Directed by Steven Leckart, STANS is at present screening in choose theaters and might be obtainable to stream on Paramount+ later this yr.

The movie takes its title from Eminem’s 2000 hit “Stan,” which has since grow to be cultural shorthand for obsessive fandom.

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