Eminem has opened up about his near-fatal overdose and recovery.
The 49-year-old was fighting an addiction to prescription medication when he was hospitalized in December 2007 after taking an overdose of methadone.
In an intimate interview on the, hosted by the Grammy winner's longtime manager Paul Rosenberg, 51, Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, revealed, 'It took a long time for my brain to start working again.'
Opening up: Eminem, 49, has opened up about his near-fatal 2007 overdose in 2007 and subsequent road to recovery; seen in Los Angeles in February
After the overdose, The Real Slim Shady artist went back to using again, but he was scared by the near-death experience and entered rehab, and finally got in April 2008.
According to the rapper and his manager, doctors were testing medications to help stabilize his condition.
'And some of them took you a minute to adjust to—let's just leave it at that. So, you're learning how to rap again almost literally, right?' asked Rosenberg.
'Because it's the first time, probably, you were creating without having substances in your body in…however many years, right?
'Didn't you ask the doctors when I first started rapping again, didn't you say, "I just wanna make sure he doesn't have brain damage"?' the Rap God artist asked.