Eminem has recalled how he "cried" after learning he would miss his daughter's music recital amid his recovery from a drug overdose.
In the new documentary STANS, the rapper - real name Marshall Mathers III - opened up about being hospitalised after an accidental methadone overdose in December 2007.
Reflecting on the difficult time, Eminem described how he could only remember waking up in a hospital bed one day.
"I got into this viscous cycle of, 'I'm depressed so I need more pills,' and then your tolerance gets so high you end up overdosing," he says in the film, according to a preview obtained by People. "I woke up in the hospital and I didn't know what the f**k happened. It seemed like I fell asleep, and I woke up with tubes in me and s**t. I wanted to get up. I couldn't move. After the overdose, I came home going, 'Yo, bro, I need something.'"
The Without Me hitmaker went on to note that he decided to get sober after realising he had missed his daughter Hailie Jade's first guitar recital. Hailie Jade, an influencer, is now 29.
"The amount of guilt that I felt, I cried when I saw it because I was like, 'Oh my God, I missed that,'" the 52-year-old continues. "Do you want to miss everything? If you can't do it for yourself... then at least do it for them."
Eminem has been sober since April 2008.
STANS, named after the hip-hop icon's 2000 song Stan, chronicles the "complicated relationship between one of the world's most private artists and his massive public persona".
Directed by Steven Leckart, the documentary is now showing in select theatres. It will be available to stream via Paramount+ later this year.
