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Eminem's Divorce Rap
by Josh Grossberg
Apr 7, 2006, 10:15 AM PT
We figured Eminem wouldn't keep quiet for long.
A day after Kim Mathers phoned a Detroit radio station to explain why she and the rapper decided to call it quits an unwhopping three months after remarrying, the real Slim Shady responded with his own statement about their divorce encore.
"The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family," Eminem, 33, said in a statement issued Thursday by Interscope Records. Then came the "however." First, though, a recap.
Speaking to WKQI-FM's morning show, Kim Mathers, 31, hinted that her off-on-off-on-off husband, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, had begun using drugs again. The rapper completed a rehab stint last year for addiction to sleeping pills.
"He's having problems with, you know, his problem that he had," Kim Mathers said during a 10-minute call. "I was hoping we could get counseling and work it out...Right after he came home from his rehab, we started to have a few problems, and I thought it was going to be in our best interest to delay the wedding. But he really pushed it, and I thought it was really going to be something that worked this time.
"I hope, in his best interest, that he does return to rehab," she continued, claiming that Eminem is acting weird and doing "a lot of the same things that I did when I had my problem"--a reference to her own struggles with cocaine addiction that led to several run-ins with the law and subsequent drug treatment.
Kim said she was surprised by Em's divorce filing on Wednesday.
"I don't really necessarily want to get divorced," Kim said, adding that the rapper has not talked to her in six weeks. "I was hoping he was going to come home and say, 'I got us a counselor, let's go.' But you know, it didn't work out that way. I got an attorney at the door instead."
Despite his call for privacy, the rapper couldn't resist dissing his estranged wife's remarks.
"A few of Kim's statements in a radio interview need to be addressed. First, her allegations regarding my status post-rehab are both untrue and unfortunate. Second, she was aware that I was filing for divorce. We both tried to give our marriage another chance and quickly realized that a wedding doesn't fix the underlying problems," he said.
The onetime high school sweethearts retied the knot Jan. 14, not long after Em shocked fans with an announcement of their reconciliation. The couple, who have a 10-year-old daughter, Hailie Jade, first swapped vows in 1999. But Eminem filed for divorce in August 2000, just two months after Kim attempted suicide.
Kim hit back with a lawsuit seeking a sizeable chunk of Eminem's fortune, along with an additional $10 million for emotional distress stemming from Em's rap about killing her in the track "Kim."
They tried to patch things up in December 2000, but by the following March, things had soured again, and it was Kim Mathers who filed for an expedited divorce.
A bitter custody battle ensued that ended with the Grammy- and Oscar-winning rapper agreeing to give Kim custody of Hailie Jade, but that changed due to Kim's ongoing drug problems.
After a four-year break, Eminem announced last December that the two had reconciled and were "probably going to marry."
They followed through on that prediction a month later in a lavish ceremony in the Detroit suburb of Rochester, attended by pals 50 Cent and Obie Trice.
This time around, Eminem has requested joint custody of their daughter. As for Kim's niece, Alaina, and Whitney, Kim's daughter from another relationship, both of whom the couple also care for, Kim indicated she would leave it up to the children to decide whom they want to live with.
Meanwhile, in other Eminem news, in an interview taped for his Sirius Satellite Radio station, Shade 45, the rapper once again dismissed rumors that he planned to retire.
"People get it twisted when I said I'm taking a break," MTV News quoted Em as saying. "I never said I'm going to stop doing music. What I meant was that I'm taking a break from being the frontman and the center of attention. I want to fall back for a minute, but I never stop recording. I keep busy."
Eminem is currently wrapping up production on Obie Trice's latest album, Second Round's on Me.
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