Debbie Nelson, Eminem’s mother, has died at the age of 69. The rapper’s representative, Dennis Dennehy, confirmed her death to US media. The cause of death has yet to be confirmed, but she was known to have lung cancer. Eminem is yet to comment publicly on his mother’s death.
The fraught relationship with his mother was most starkly laid bare on one of his biggest hits, Cleanin’ Out My Closet. In the 2002 song, Eminem furiously accuses her of drug abuse and neglect.
Eminem battled his own problems with prescription drugs, connected his own experiences of addiction with his mother’s, stating “that’s why I’m on what I’m on ’cause I’m my mom” on the 2009 track My Mom.
In 2008, Nelson wrote a memoir titled My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem, in which she said she was “heartbroken” over her son’s claims about her.
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