Fives years of his life gone....guess who helped him get through it?
Eminem celebrated a Birthday on October 17th and has spoke out about how the prescription drug Ambien caused him lose huge chunks of his memory. Em ays the sedative contributed to a four year long stretch of writer’s block and that the pills were ‘wiping out his brain cells’....
…a lot of my memory is gone. I don't know if you've ever taken Ambien, but it's kind of a memory-eraser. That shit wiped out five years of my life. People will tell me stories, and it's like, "I did that?" I saw myself doing this thing on [television network] BET recently, and I was like, "When was that?"
In the interview with Rolling Stone, Eminem said that he kept some of his writing from that period and that:
“It fucking creeps me out. Letters all down the page – it was like my hand weighed 400 pounds. I have all that shit in a box in my closet. As a reminder that I don't ever want to go back.”
During the peak of his drug addiction, he revealed that he was taking up to 60 Valium and 30 Vicodin pills a day. In 2007, he overdosed on methadone.
“The doctors told me I'd done the equivalent of four bags of heroin,”says Eminem.
“They said I was about two hours from dying.”And believe it or not... Em says Elton John was one of the people who helped him to overcome his addictions.
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“He usually calls me once a week to check on me, just to make sure I'm on the up-and-up,”says Eminem.
“He was actually one of the first people I called when I wanted to get clean.”
Well they are pretty CLOSE! Remember what Eminem got Elton for his wedding?........
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