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Eminem on overdose that nearly killed him: 'It took a long time for my brain to start working again'
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 Paul Pod podcast, 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.