It’s a big day for Eminem.
The River rapper had a special reason to celebrate this weekend and we couldn’t be more proud.
The 45-year-old had for years battled an addiction to alcohol and prescription medication, leading to a stint in rehab in 2005 and an accidental methadone overdose which nearly killed him in 2007.
But since then, the musician — born Marshall Mathers III — has been clean and is now celebrating an impressive 10 years of sobriety.
Eminem took to Instagram and shared a photo of himself holding a sobriety coin bearing the Alcoholics Anonymous symbol on Instagram on Saturday, along with the caption, “Celebrated my 10 years yesterday.”
The rapper has been very frank about his addiction struggle, telling GQ in 2011, “The thing sobriety has taught me the most is the way I’m wired — why my thought process is so different. But sometimes it sucks, and I wish I was wired like a regular person and could go have a f–kin’ drink. But that’s the biggest thing about addiction. When you realise that you cannot f–k around with nothing ever again. I never understood when people would say it’s a disease. But I finally realised — it really is.”
As Eminem himself said, the moment you own it, you better never let it go.
