Born in 1955 at a army base in Kansas, Debbie is the mom of Eminem.
She married the “With out Me” artist’s father Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. when she was 15, in keeping with her 2008 memoir My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem. She started pregnant with Eminem 16 months later and relocated to Michigan, the place her maternal grandmother lived.
Debbie and Eminem’s strained relationship has been documented in a number of of his songs, together with his 2002 smash hit “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.” Within the observe, he alleged that Debbie abused prescription tablets when he was younger—which she denied in her autobiography.
“What mom needs to be generally known as a pill-popping alcoholic who lives on welfare?” she wrote. “None of it was true, however the fibs saved getting larger, and finally Marshall and I grew to become estranged.”
Nevertheless, Eminem has since expressed remorse in airing out his household drama. In his 2013 tune “Headlights,” he rapped, “I went in headfirst, by no means interested by who, what I stated harm / In what verse, my mother in all probability acquired it the worst.”
