'My bottom... was going to be death': Eminem opens up in a heart-wrenching documentary about how he nearly died from drug abuse
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The film, entitled How To Make Money Selling Drugs, has the rapper revealing some frightening facts about how he 'almost died.'
In a rather heart-wrenching preview of the film on YouTube, the 40-year-old rapper reveals that at one point, he was almost put on dialysis and the doctors didn't think he'd make it.
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Opening up: Eminem revealed all about his history of drug abuse in his latest documentary film,
Success despite struggle: Eminem was pictured here performing in Scotland in July of 2010
As he talks about a time he almost died after a long stint taking such drugs as Vicodin, Xanax and Valium, he appears to struggle to even get the words out.
Eminem explains that he pushed away anyone that tried to help him or let him know he had a problem, saying: 'Get that f*%@ing person outta here, I can't believe they said that sh*t to me.'
The star tells how since he was taking prescription pills and 'not shooting heroin' or 'putting coke up [his] nose' or 'smoking crack', that he 'literally thought [he] could control it.'
'I don't know what point exactly it started to be a problem, I just remember liking it more and more,' said the Slim Shady legend.
When Eminem finally wound up at the hospital, he said, it was almost too late.
'Had I got to the hospital about two hours later, I would have died. My organs were shutting down. My liver, kidneys, everything. They were gonna have to put me on dialysis, they didn’t think I was gonna make it,' he said in a shocking revelation.
He said he didn't sleep for three weeks after that and later relapsed.
'I don't know exactly at what point it started
being a problem': Pictured in 2009, Eminem battled prescription drug
abuse for a long time before being hospitalized for an overdose
In the documentary that was released on 29 June, the star said that sobriety has 'been a learning process' for him.
'I'm growing. I just couldn’t believe that anybody could be naturally happy or naturally function or be just enjoying life in general without being on something.'
His words to anybody battling drug addiction were: 'It does get better, you know. It just does.'
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