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LEAKED: at 8 AM by YourAudioFix (CDQ by TeamSupreme) In the end I got down to about 149 pounds.THE TOPIC: Eminem's 'Not Afraid' (The First Single From Recovery) I started getting OCD about the calories, making sure I burned 2,000 every day. Then I'd come home and run another eight and a half. I would get up in the morning, and before I went to the studio, I would run eight and a half miles in about an hour. 'I got an addict's brain, and when it came to running, I think I got a little carried away,' Eminem told Men's Journal. The rapper also said that he replaced ' addiction with exercise' after ballooning to 230 pounds after his overdose.Įminem's post-overdose workouts included running, boxing, sit-ups and push-ups. 'I love so much, and they’ve helped me through so many things,' he said. I couldn’t concentrate on my problem.'Įminem said that being a father to his biological daughter Hailie and his two adopted daughters, Lainey and Whitney was central to his motivation to get sober. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. He continued, 'When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. I detoxed in the hospital, and then I came home. 'The second time I didn’t go to rehab,' Eminem told The New York Times in 2010. Two years later, Eminem nearly died from an accidental methadone overdose, which prompted another attempt to get clean, this time without entering a rehab facility.

The song was featured on Recovery, an album that Eminem dedicated to his battle to overcome addictions to Vicodin, Valium, Ambien and methadone between 20.Įminem first tried to get sober in 2005 by going to rehab, but relapsed after the shooting death of his friend, DeShaun 'Proof' Holton.

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