Eminem Celebrates 16 Years Sober With New AA Chip

Eminem is even now clear and sober immediately after 16 yrs.

The “Lose Yourself” rapper, 51, celebrated 16 many years of sobriety on Saturday, April 20, sharing a photograph by means of Instagram of his hand holding an Alcoholics Nameless chip to commemorate the milestone. Although Eminem (actual name Marshall Mathers) did not involve a caption along with the picture, his comments were total of supporters congratulating him for the achievement.

“Greatest Affect and Mentor 🔥🔥❤,” Nathan Kane Mathers, Eminem’s brother, wrote in the reviews.

“Sweet 16. So very pleased of you,” Em’s longtime manager, Paul Rosenberg, commented.

Eminem has beforehand spoken about his struggles with habit soon after surviving a in close proximity to-deadly overdose in 2007. His principal addictions had been sleeping products as well as Vicodin and, according to the rapper, he was at one particular position having upwards of 20 pills a working day.

Past that, Eminem has remained rather quiet on social media with regards to his restoration. Even so, he shared a image of himself through Instagram in April 2019 keeping an Alcoholics Nameless coin on the 11th anniversary of his sobriety. “11 decades — however not fearful,” he captioned the pic at the time.

Eminem has been sober considering the fact that April 20, 2008. Just one year afterwards, he unveiled his album Relapse, a strategy album that explored drug rehabilitation and relapse. It was his initially launch considering the fact that 2004’s Encore.

“I recall when I very first obtained sober and all the s–t was out of my procedure, I try to remember just being, like, truly content and all the things was f–king new to me once again,” Eminem said of Relapse in a September 2022 episode of Rosenberg’s “Paul Pod” podcast. “It was the initial album and the initially time that I had fun recording in a long time.”

He ongoing, “It was like the very first time I commenced possessing enjoyable with songs again, and re-understanding how to rap, you recall that whole process. It took a extensive time for my brain to commence performing once again.”

In February 2024, Eminem announced that he would be co-creating a documentary beneath the doing work title Stans, described as a “revealing, edgy and disarmingly private journey into the environment of super fandom, advised by way of the lens of a person of the world’s most iconic and enduring artists, Eminem, and the enthusiasts that worship him.”

Eminem posted by means of X (formerly Twitter) on April 10 looking for diehard Slender Shady supporters who would want to participate in the doc. “Looking for Stans for a documentary developed by Eminem & Shady Movies,” he wrote. The expression “stan” comes from the track of the very same name from Em’s 2000 album, The Marshall Mathers LP.