The 51-year-old rapper previously said that a near-fatal drug overdose in 2007 was a wake-up call that motivated him to get sober

 

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Eminem in Hollywood in January 2020Eminem is
celebrating another year of sobriety.
en Saturday A ril 2u uie Love Yourself rap, er 51, marked 16 years over
snaring the milestone on instagram will fan. The Grammy winner – who was
burn Marshall Mathers-usted a poto of his and holding a new chi,
commemorating the achievement.
The comments section of the captionless post was filled with messages of
support and congratulations for the rapper. “We’re all proud of you for being 16
years sober,” read a note from the fan account Stanistheone.
“Great decision you made brother! We’re all very proud of you
DTG (real name Dylan Godfrey) wrote.
,” fellow rapper

Eminem previously shared that a near-fatal drug overdose in 2007 was a wake-up
call that inspired him to get sober after taking up to 20 pills a day.

“I remember when I first got sober and all the s― was out of my system, !
remember just being, like, really happy and everything was f-ing new to me
again,” he said on Paul Rosenberg’s Paul Pod podcast in 2022.
On top of crediting his kids — biological daughter Hailie Jade and his two adopted
children, Alaina and Stevie – with keeping him sober, Eminem also replaced
“addiction with exercise.”
Eminem performing in June 2018″When I got out of rehab, I needed to lose
weight, but I also needed to figure out a way to function sober,” the rapper
told Men’s Journal in 2015. “Unless I was blitzed out of my mind, I had trouble
sleeping. So I started running. It gave me a natural endorphin high, but it also
helped me sleep, so it was perfect.”