Eminem is opening up about his 17-year sobriety journey

During a current interview with PEOPLE, Eminem skilled a music/eminem-detalis-recovery-2007-overdose/”>near-fatal overdose in 2007, which induced him to  transform his life. In his new documentary STANS, he reveals the steps he took to avoid wasting his life.

“After the overdose, I came home going, ‘Yo, bro, I need something… I’m going to die if I don’t do something,” Em stated.

He went on to explain he was coming off a  “vicious cycle” of feeling “depressed” and needing “extra capsules “ and wakened sooner or later within the hospital.

“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,” he stated.

Following overdose, made his 2009 album Relapse and commenced the restoration course of.

You’ve gotta do one thing completely different,’” Em stated after the lukewarm response the the LP. “Why don’t you try embracing sobriety?”

He continues, “I realized I’m not embarrassed anymore about it, and I started treating sobriety like a superpower. I was proud of the fact that I could quit.”

In STANS, which takes his title after his traditional track from 2000, viewers will witness the “complicated relationship between one of the world’s most private artists and his massive public persona,” according to the synopsis of the doc.

“Through stylized recreations, rare archival footage, intimate interviews, and an exclusive original interview with Eminem himself, it offers a raw, loud, and revealing journey across his career — and the passionate audience that has grown with him,” it continues.

STANS will probably be obtainable to stream internationally on Paramount+ later this 12 months.