Eminem Talks Drugs and Mourning with Vibe

In a recent interview with Vibe Eminem discussed dealing with the death of his dear friend Proof and drug addiction.

“It’s no secret I had a drug problem. If I was to give you a number of Vicodin I would actually take in a day? Anywhere between 10 to 20. Valium, Ambien, the numbers got so high I don’t even know what I was taking.”

After rehab stay #1 he relapsed and OD’d on some blue pills he had taken.

“My doctor told me those mysterious new pills were methadone, which is used to wean heroin addicts off dope. Had I known it was methadone, I probably wouldn’t have taken it. But as bad as I was back then, I can’t even say 100 percent for sure. My doctor told me the amount of methadone I’d taken was equivalent to shooting up four bags of heroin. Even when they told me I almost died, it didn’t click.”

He later had a knee injury and surgery but wasn’t given drugs because of his past.

He says, “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.”

“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.”

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I knew he like the candy but I didn’t know it was that bad. Hopefully he’s clean now and can lock it up.

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