Watch: Eminem's Daughter Hailie Jade Reveals How Parenthood Has Changed Her Understanding of Her DadEminem's ability to lose himself in his addiction prompted a major change. In his new documentary Stans, the "Mockingbird" rapper reflected on his past habit of abusing prescription pills-including Vicodin, Valium, Ambien and Xanax-starting in the late '90s until around 2008, resulting in a dangerous health scare. "I got into this vicious cycle of, 'I'm depressed so I need more pills,'" Eminem said in the doc, per Us Weekly. "Then your tolerance gets so high that you end up overdosing. I woke up in the hospital and I didn't know what happened. I woke up in the hospital with tubes in me and s--t and I couldn't get up, I wanted to move." The 52-year-old (real name Marshall Mathers) noted that when returned home, he felt like he "needed something" and that he was "gonna die" if he didn't make a change. Beyond the health scare, he was compelled to fight back against his addiction after missing the birthday party of his and ex Kim Scott's daughter Hailie Jade, now 29. readEminem Has Fans Losing It Over His Surprise Appearance in NYC"I cried because it was like, 'Oh my god, I missed that,'" Eminem continued. "I kept saying to myself, 'Do you want to f--king miss this again? Do you want to miss everything? If you can't do it for yourself, you f--king p---y, at least do it for them.'" As a result, he recalled, "I realized I'm never doing this again." While the "Lose Yourself" rapper has now been sober for 17 years, he explained that at the beginning of his journey he needed to "relearn how to walk, talk and for the most part had to relearn how to rap again."Andrew Roth/Shutterstock"My writing had gotten terrible," he said in the doc. "When I started to get it back, it was exciting. Because I felt it. It would be conversations, just having conversations with people or the TV." Eminem-also dad to Alaina, 32, and Stevie, 32, with Kim-added, "It was hitting me really fast and I was writing songs really quickly." And while working on his 2009 album Relapse, which detailed his experience with sobriety, he felt empowered by his ability to leave his addiction behind. "It did something. It turned the light on," Eminem explained. "I realized I'm not embarrassed anymore about [sobriety]. I started treating sobriety like a superpower and I took pride in the fact that I was able to quit." Read on for more stars who have gotten candid about their struggles with addiction. Lisa/AFF-USA/ShutterstockAJ McLeanAfter the Backstreet Boys member relapsed in 2021, he noted he "got sober again for the last time." "I'm sticking this one out all the way," he told People in July 2025. "It's a daily thing. But I have finally done what has been suggested amongst the sober community, and my life has flipped in a positive way." While AJ acknowledged he is "still learning, still growing," he's now confident in who he is. "I've discovered new verbiage, such as boundaries, never really had those," he continued. "Now I have those, which is a blessing. AJ is a member of a group. He is a persona, but he doesn't define me as an individual. Alexander James is who I am."Stephen Lovekin/ShutterstockJason BiggsIn October 2018, the American Pie star announced he was one year sober in a celebratory and encouraging Instagram post. "I first tried to get sober over 5 years ago, when the weight of my obsession with booze and drugs became too heavy for me to handle," he wrote at the time. "Turns out this s--t is hard." He continued, "After some fits and starts, I've managed to put together one year of sobriety. I'm as proud of it as anything in my life. If you're struggling, know there's help. Don't be ashamed. We can do this." Years later, he reflected on his journey with addiction and the lengths he went to hide the his struggle. "I'm going to therapy and 'working on things' but meanwhile I'm leaving therapy, having just had a good session, and I'm going to the liquor store and buying a fifth of vodka, drinking it and then driving home," he said on a March 2024 episode of his wife Jenny Mollen's All the Fails podcast. "I knew how to get wasted enough to where I took myself out of the life equation, took myself out of the present, didn't have to connect in a way that made me feel things." He added, "I had it figured out to a T. To not get too drunk where I couldn't have a conversation with you. I was replacing those bottles in the bar all the time." Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty ImagesAshlyn HarrisThe two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champ has been open about her misuse of Adderall while battling injuries during her college soccer career. "I was getting really heavily addicted to Adderall and misusing it," she said on a 2025 episode of the Question Everything with Danielle Robay podcast. "I was taking it all the time. I would go days without sleeping. It was wild. I felt like I was gonna give myself a heart attack. I was crushing it. I was snorting it. It was so prob