Rapper Eminem says his addiction to Vicodin, Valium, Ambien and methadone led to an overdose that nearly killed him in 2007.
The 'Lose Yourself' rapper was speaking at his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and said "drugs were f**king delicious".
"I realise what an honour it is right now to be here up here tonight, and what a privilege it is to do the music that I love," he said.
"Music basically saved my life. I'll keep this as painless as possible. I'm f**king stuttering and shit. I'm probably not supposed to actually be here tonight because of a couple of reasons.
"I almost died from an overdose in 2007, which kind of sucked."
He then addressed his daughter, Hailie Jade, who was at the event.
"Hailie, plug your ears. Because drugs were f**king delicious. I thought we had a good thing going on, but I had to go and f**k it all up. Goddamn."
The rapper has now been sober for more than a decade, but has also been candid in speaking about how his addiction quickly spiralled out of control, in part due to his workload while making semi-autobiographical 2002 movie 8 Mile.
"We were doing 16 hours on the set and you had a certain window where you had to sleep," he told Rolling Stone in 2011.
"One day somebody gave me an Ambien, and it knocked me the f**k out. I was like, 'I need this all the time'."
In September, the 'Without Me' singer revealed he has dropped his feud with fellow rapper Snoop Doog.
He patched things up with the hip-hop legend after 57-year-old rapper and producer Dr Dre suffered a brain aneurysm in January 2021.
Though the music mogul was in critical condition at the time, he was released from the hospital the following month.
"Me and Snoop had our little issue and then Dre, when Dre had that brain aneurysm thing," he explained.
"We were like, 'Oh this is stupid. This is stupid as hell to be feuding right now'."
The reconciliation led to the duo playing together on stage at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards.
