Royce Da 5’9 is what one would call a “ride-or-die” friend. The longtime Eminem affiliate is once again showing his support for the diamond-selling MC and his journey to sobriety.
On Monday (April 20), the Slaughterhouse vet shared an Instagram photo of his Bad Meets Evil cohort holding his 10-year AA chip but wrote “12” over the front of it to indicate 2020 actually marks Em’s 12th year of sobriety.
He wrote in the caption, “And counting…. Proud of my brother.”
Em’s road to recovery started to take shape in 2005 when he went to rehab to seek help for an addiction to sleeping pills. But in December 2007, he nearly died of a methadone overdose. After a night of heavy using, he was taken to the hospital where doctors informed him he’d consumed the equivalent of four bags of heroin and was “about two hours from dying.”
“It’s no secret I had a drug problem,” he told Vibe magazine in 2009. “If I was to give you a number of Vicodin I would actually take in a day? Anywhere between 10 to 20. Valium, Ambien, the numbers got so high I don’t even know what I was taking.”
Shady ultimately decided to put the drugs down, go back to rehab, get a sponsor and begin going to 12-step meetings. His clean date is April 20, 2008. He marked the occasion last year with an Instagram photo of his own.
He wrote in the caption, “11 years – still not afraid.”
Royce issued a similar sentiment in 2018 when Em was celebrating 10 years.
“Happy sobriety birthday to my mentor @Eminem,” he wrote. “Keep fighting the good fight homie … I love you for life.”
Real G stuff right there. Cheers to another 12 years.
I seriously missed you Deveondi. Interesting comment!!
You need get get some better mixing bruh and maybe someone else to sing the hook but I fuck with your flow
Good job Em.
That’s dope I just got one year on April 17
Last year they had this story for his 11 years sober and I commented that I was four months clean. I relapsed once a few weeks later, but that was the only time, now I’m about a week and a half away from one year clean.
Keep pushing and believing ??
The real slim shady is a base head.. give him his meds.. crack, powder, meth, heroin … he thrives on it..
You take it first with a large dose of fentanyl PLEASE.. Congrats to Em! I see ppl talking but everything he puts out still charts at #1! Sit down.
I’m happy for him, but Eminem died for me when he stopped the drugs. Musically I felt that when he was on drugs, his work was a lot better. Still happy for him tho, if he’s living his best life who am I to throw hate?
Afterward they both went and celebrated with a fat bag of that Detroit brown
That’s fucking asome seen him at skydoom Toronto with limp bisque papa roach