The cover art and publishing rights have been floating around for awhile now (and I believe the book’s even been sold in Canada), but Debbie Nelson, better known as the pill-popping, lawsuit-filing mother to rap genius Eminem, is officially heading to book stores near you.
The tale details a lot of Marshall Mathers pre-fame life, saying that the two were famously close, that Em was the result of severe bullying through school, and that she ultimately regrets keeping her mouth shut during a lot of the rapper’s earlier career years.
She says he grew from a perfect baby who never cried to a troubled child with a temper who was terribly shy around strangers and other kids, preferring to play with his imaginary friend, Casper. People often referred to Em as a “monster,” she says, recalling when he destroyed a store display and lay spread-eagle across an aisle screaming and when he pulled an old lady’s hair and threw food around at a restaurant where his mother worked.
Because he was small, he was often bullied at school. When he was 9, he was beat so badly he lost consciousness and was hospitalized for four days for a cerebral hemorrhage and had to relearn how to tie his shoes and pour cereal in a bowl. When Em referred to the incident in the song “Brain Damage,” his tormentor DeAngelo Bailey tried to sue him for $1 million.
Nelson says Marshall clung to her when she dropped him off, often faking illnesses to get out of going to school and once smashing his arm through a glass door and cutting a main artery in his wrist in a panic when he thought she was leaving the house without him. He eventually made what she calls a miraculous recovery from his brain injury, but when doctors warned that another blow to the head could kill him, she made him wear a football helmet to play outside.
During his rise to fame with The Slim Shady LP in 1999, Eminem was so strung out on drugs and alcohol that he later confessed to his mother that he couldn’t recall much of anything about that year not his hit singles, his concerts or even his first wedding to his on-and-off first love, Kim Scott. [source]
Seriously though, how convenient that the book’s finally coming out just as Eminem announces he’s working on his new album. So sad. Why won’t this woman just fade away already?
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