Eminem Relapse storms to top of UK charts

Eminem’s comeback album Relapse has stormed to the top of the UK charts, becoming the fastest seller in Brittan so far this year.

In a recent interview with VIBE Magazine the 36-year-old described how he almost died after overdosing.

“I had taken so many pills that my immune system wasn’t functioning right,” he said.

“They told me if I’d gotten to the hospital two hours later, I would have died.”

Much of Eminem’s new album Relapse reflects his problems over last few years, in which he also had to deal with the death of close friend and fellow rapper, Proof, in 2006.

The rapper’s troubled relationship with his mother, Debbie Mathers Briggs, has been widely documented throughout his work.

But since overcoming his addiction Eminem revealed he is now sympathetic towards her.

“It never once hit me that drug addiction runs in my family,” he told VIBE Magazine.

“Now I understand I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”