Eminem in Rehab, Back on the drugs?

[TRshady]

Two days after deep-sixing his European tour citing "exhaustion," Eminem has confirmed through his publicist that he is in drug rehabilitation.

The Grammy-winning rapper "is in the hospital under doctors' care," Interscope Records spokesman Dennis Dennehy said in a brief statement Thursday. "He is being treated for dependency on sleep medication."

No further details were released. However, Star magazine reported that the rapper had checked in to a facility in his native Michigan.

Eminem has rapped about the wonders of LSD, has reportedly popped Ecstasy and even has a Vicodin tattoo, but he had claimed to have reformed his bad-boy lifestyle over the past few years.

On Tuesday, Dennehy released a statement announcing the cancellation of the 10-date European leg of the rapper's Anger Management 3 tour. At the time, Dennehy would only say the 32-year-old rapper nixed the trip due to "exhaustion, complicated by other medical issues" and that he was being treated for the undisclosed maladies.

The European sojourn was set to kick off Sept. 1 in Hamburg and wrap Sept. 17 in Dublin. The dates won't likely be rescheduled.

Eminem had finished the U.S. run of the tour, which also featured 50 Cent, Lil Jon and members of the G-Unit crew, Aug. 13 in his hometown of Detroit.

The trek had been marred by a major bus accident en route to Denver July 13, in which several members of the tour, including Eminem's deejay, were hospitalized.

News of Eminem's rehab stint comes amid some other trouble for the rapper. After having weathered salvos from his mother, grandmother and ex-wife, Eminem now faces a lawsuit from his aunt and uncle, Betty and Jack Schmitt, who claim he is trying to evict them from a house he had built for them and renegged on a promise to pay them a yearly stipend of $100,000. In their suit filed Aug. 12 in Michigan's Macomb County Court, the couple are seeking $350,000 in cash and ownership of the property, according to documents posted at the Smoking Gun.

In July, the Detroit Free Press reported the rapper otherwise known as Marshall Mathers III would be retiring from recording and performing following the European tour and instead focus on producing other artists.

But Mathers angrily dismissed the report, telling MTV.com, "When I say I'm taking a break, I'm taking a break from my music to go in the studio and produce my other artists and put their albums out.

"When I know my next move, I'll tell everyone my next move."

If indeed he retires, he will go out as the best selling hip-hop artist of all time. His four solo studio albums--1999's The Slim Shady LP, 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP, 2002's The Eminem Show and Encore--have moved more than 25 million copies in the U.S. alone and generated sales of more than $1 billion.

He's also won nine
Grammys to go along with his Best Song Oscar for the 8 Mile track "Lose Yourself."

As an A&R man for his Shady Records, he guided 50 Cent's monster-selling debut release, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and has shepherded releases for his G-Unit posse and his Detroit rap crew D12.

[Tomega]

Yeah, heard that! sad news: drug problems.. Probably the tour was to heavy for em. Hope he will recover soon and that he makes everything up to his European fans!

propz for the article.

[yoshi]

thx for the article, TR.. i hope eminem will recover, then he should take a short break from everything..

[eminemcaparica]

the drugs are shit, i got alot experience with drugs, not with me, with friends, i never took drugs in mi entire life, but alot of mi friends have, and is a death row.
thankx 4 the article and i hope eminem get welll

[V-DogDaMenace]

Damn, i hope marshall gets well, Marshall should atleast put out 5 more albums, dat will be dope Thanks TR!

[ninaaftermath]

:? y cant he reschedule the tour ????????????

[SPEEDY]

Eminem needs the sleeping pills coz he has a sleeping condition which most o his familt have. He was legally proscribed the drugs. His body has just become 2 used to the drugs. On the Anger management tour he was only getting about 1 hour of sleep each night so he took more pills - this produced the opposite effect and he could no longer sleep. Eventually he had no choice but 2 go into rehab.

[eminemcaparica]

thankx 4 the information

[forrest]

i hope em will better soon. and he will never retire. he loves his fun.

[MC Evil-One]

Eminem needs the sleeping pills coz he has a sleeping condition which most o his familt have. He was legally proscribed the drugs. His body has just become 2 used to the drugs. On the Anger management tour he was only getting about 1 hour of sleep each night so he took more pills - this produced the opposite effect and he could no longer sleep. Eventually he had no choice but 2 go into rehab.

Sounds correct to me, but where have you got that from?

[SPEEDY]

I got dat info from the Detroit Free Press website;

http://www.freep.com/news/health/eminem19e_20050819.htm

[7eleven]

Damn, i hope he get well soon. My best wishes for him.

[SlimShady02]

where has Em the Vicodin tatoo?

[Dcee]

really hope he gets beter and re-scheduals soon, i was gutted when i found out.I dont want him to retire but it would probally b ideal to retire at the peak of his carear before he looses his respect

[Emycaro]

c'mon Em, you'll recover soon...i don't think it be drugs problem...only stress for the amt3..
luv ya