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Eminem's battle with pills, overdose and weight as he reaches 12-years sobriety

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Eminem celebrated 12-years of sobriety last month but before he tackled his tricky relationship with drugs he was popping 90 pills a day.

The hitmaker, 47, was also severely overweight at the peak of his addiction and has admitted that he weighed close to 230 pounds as a result of overeating - after prescription drugs left him with a hole in his stomach.

The award-winning artist - real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III - who would take 60 Valium and 30 Vicodin pills a day - has previously explained that he was left trying to fill the pain with food. "The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I'd been taking for years leaves a hole in your stomach, so to avoid a stomachache, I was constantly eating and eating badly," he said during a chat with

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