Mom slams rapper
2008-09-19 14:00
Los Angeles - Eminem has been branded a liar by his mother.
Debbie Nelson claims the image her son - real name Marshall Mathers - paints of her being a bad parent addicted to medication, living off welfare and neglectful of her youngest child is wholly untrue.
"At first I went along with it for Marshall's sake - if I made one mistake as a mother, it was giving in to my eldest son's every whim," Debbie says in her new memoir My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem.
Debbie added the pair were very close when he was a child, and claims he told her he negatively portrayed her because "the fouler he was, the more the audience loved him".
"He never knew his father and I did all I could to make up for it," she explains.
"I wasn't happy when he made up a whole new life for himself - what mother wants to be known as a pill-popping alcoholic who lives on welfare?
"To tell the truth, I was heartbroken. The lies started coming thick and fast - and not just from Marshall. I think he's forgotten the good times we had, and this book is my way of setting the record straight."
Eminem has attacked his mother in a number of songs, including his first hit single My Name Is which included the scathing line: "99% of my life I was lied to/ I just found out my mom does more dope than I do." - Bang Showbiz.com