Current:Home > ScamsEminem's daughter cried listening to his latest songs: 'I didn't realize how bad things were' -InvestPioneer
Eminem's daughter cried listening to his latest songs: 'I didn't realize how bad things were'
Robert Brown View
Date:2025-04-09 22:02:06
Eminem's daughter has watched her dad's latest music video — and she never will again.
Hailie Jade, the 28-year-old daughter of the "Without Me" rapper, shared on her "Just a Little Shady" podcast on Friday that she cried watching the video for her father's song "Somebody Save Me" and finds it too emotional to ever revisit.
"I watched it in (its) entirety, and I don't think I can do it again," she said. "I definitely cry every time I hear it at all."
In the track from Eminem's latest album "The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)," the Grammy winner references his children by name and apologizes to them, saying he doesn't "even deserve the father title."
"Hailie, I'm so sorry / I know I wasn't there for your first guitar recital / Didn't walk you down the aisle / Missed the birth of your first child / Your first podcast, looking down sweetie / I'm so proud of how you turned out," he raps.
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.
In reality, Eminem and Jade shared a father-daughter dance at her wedding in May. The song appeared to imagine a scenario where the rapper, who has been open about his past struggles with drug addiction, never got sober.
Eminem goes on to tell Hailie in the song that he's "sorry that I chose drugs and put 'em above you" and "didn't love you enough to give 'em up." He also apologizes to his children Alaina and Stevie, rapping, "Alaina, sorry that you had to hear me fall in the bathroom," and "Stevie, I'm sorry I missed you / Grow up and I didn't get to / Be the dad I wanted to be to you."
Hailie Jade,Eminem's daughter, ties the knot with Evan McClintock: 'Waking up a wife'
The music video, which dropped last week and features Jelly Roll, intersperses home video footage of Eminem's kids. He shares Hailie Jade with ex-wife Kim Scott and adopted Alaina and Stevie.
Jade shared on the podcast that she "audibly sobbed" while listening to both "Somebody Save Me" and another one of her dad's new songs, "Temporary," which he says is for her to listen to after he dies. "Hailie Jade, I wrote you this song / To help you cope with life now that I'm gone," he raps on the track.
Eminemcelebrates 16 years of sobriety with a new recovery chip: 'So proud of you'
"Watching the video back and listening to the songs, I feel like my parents did such a good job growing up where I didn't realize how bad things were," she said. "But now, as an adult in hindsight, it's so scary to think about. I think that's why I get emotional."
She added, "If you've ever lost an addict or a loved one, I feel for you." Though she finds it too emotional to rewatch, Jade said the "Somebody Save Me" video is "great" and that it's "fun to see clips of us when we were younger."
In a more lighthearted track from "The Death of Slim Shady," "Houdini," Eminem curses out a series of people including himself and "my own kids," calling them "brats."
Eminem, who dropped "The Death of Slim Shady" last month, celebrated 16 years of sobriety in April. He previously said on the "Paul Pod: Curtain Call 2" podcast that he nearly died from a drug overdose in 2007 and was at one point taking "75 (or) 80 Valium a night."
In 2010, the rapper said in an interview with The New York Times Magazine that his kids have helped him stay sober, telling the outlet, "I love them so much, and they've helped me through so many things."
veryGood! (4)
Related
- IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power
- Real Housewives of Orange County Alum Lauri Peterson's Son Josh Waring's Cause of Death Revealed
- Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump advertises his firm on patches worn by US Open tennis players
- Libertarian candidates for US Congress removed from November ballot in Iowa
- Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor
- NFL roster cut deadline winners, losers: Tough breaks for notable names
- Newborn rattlesnakes at a Colorado ‘mega den’ are making their live debut
- Heather Graham opens up about 30-year rift with parents over Hollywood disapproval
- San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
- Dancing With the Stars' Peta Murgatroyd Shares She's Not Returning Ahead of Season 33
Ranking
- San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
- Ludacris causes fans to worry after he drinks 'fresh glacial water' in Alaska
- Jewish family can have anti-hate yard signs after neighbor used slur, court says
- When the US left Kabul, these Americans tried to help Afghans left behind. It still haunts them
- Travis Hunter, the 2
- Investigators say dispatching errors led to Union Pacific train crash that killed 2 workers
- Libertarian candidates for US Congress removed from November ballot in Iowa
- 'Incredibly dangerous men': These Yankees are a spectacle for fans to cherish
Recommendation
The Super Bowl could end in a 'three
CIA: Taylor Swift concert suspects plotted to kill 'tens of thousands’ in Vienna
Allison Holker Shares Photo Teasing New Romance 2 Years After Husband Stephen tWitch Boss' Death
US Open favorite Alcaraz crashes out after a shocking straight-sets loss
Chuck Scarborough signs off: Hoda Kotb, Al Roker tribute legendary New York anchor
Hailey Bieber and Justin Bieber’s Pal Adwoa Aboah Reveals Baby Jack’s True Birth Date
Fall is bringing fantasy (and romantasy), literary fiction, politics and Taylor-ed book offerings
'Incredibly dangerous men': These Yankees are a spectacle for fans to cherish