Eminem Shares His 17 Year Sobriety Journey

Eminem is opening up about his 17-year sobriety journey

During a recent interview with PEOPLE, Eminem experienced a near-fatal overdose in 2007, which caused him to  radically change his life. In his new documentary STANS, he reveals the steps he took to save his life.

“After the overdose, I came home going, ‘Yo, bro, I need something… I’m going to die if I don’t do something,” Em said.

He went on to describe he was coming off a  “vicious cycle” of feeling “depressed” and needing “more pills “ and woke up one day in the hospital.

“I didn’t know what the f— happened. It seemed like I fell asleep, and I woke up with tubes in me and s—. I wanted to get up. I couldn’t move,” he said.

Following overdose, made his 2009 album Relapse and began the recovery process.

You’ve gotta do something different,’” Em said after the lukewarm response the the LP. “Why don’t you try embracing sobriety?”

He continues, “I realized I’m not embarrassed anymore about it, and I started treating sobriety like a superpower. I was proud of the fact that I could quit.”

In STANS, which takes his name after his classic song from 2000, viewers will witness the “complicated relationship between one of the world’s most private artists and his massive public persona,” according to the synopsis of the doc.

“Through stylized recreations, rare archival footage, intimate interviews, and an exclusive original interview with Eminem himself, it offers a raw, loud, and revealing journey across his career — and the passionate audience that has grown with him,” it continues.

STANS will be available to stream internationally on Paramount+ later this year.