Rapper Eminem says it "took a long time" for his "brain to start working again" after he was almos🔯tꩲ killed by his infamous drug overdose in 2007.
The 49-year-old rapper was fighting a prescription medication addiction when he was hospitalised in December 2007 after overdosing on methadone before going to rehab, and rarely publicly talks of the ef꧒fects of the incid💫ent, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
In an intimate interview on the 'Paul Pod podcast',♎ hosted by the Grammy award winner's long-term manager Paul Rosenberg, 51, Eminem said: "It took a long time for my brain to st♑art working again."
The rapper added he was taking "75 to 80 Valium a night" while he was detoxing and working on his album☂ '▨Relapse'.
He said about ౠa track called 'Detroit Basketball' being leaked at the time
"It was f****** weird, because as my brain was turning back on, I started going over lines like, 'Wait, that's not good'. If you remember, I don't know which version leaked, but if you remember, there were like,𒈔 20🔜 versions of that s***."
Eminem also asked Rosenberg: "Didn't you ask💦 the doctors when I first started rapping again, didn't you say, 'I just wanna make sure he doesn't have brain damage'?"
Rosenberg responded: "Yeah. I thought you might have some permanent problems. Yea꧋h, I was concerned, for sꦅure."
Eജminem added about getting back to recording while he fought to stay clean: "'Encore' (th💜e album before his overdose) was mediocre, and with 'Relapse' it was the best I could do at that point in time.
"I was so scatter-brained that the people around me thought that I might have given myse🐎lf brain damage. I wa♔s in this weird fog for months. Like, literally I wasn't making sense it had been so long since I'd done vocals without a ton of Valium and Vicodin. I almost had to relearn how to rap."
