Eminem is the stage name of Marshall Bruce Mathers, born in Kansas City on October 17, 1973. Eminem's name comes from the union of both initials, M & M, pronounced in English. His childhood was not easy. He grew up in the absence of the father, who left the home when he was six months old, and refused to meet once the celebrity had been reached. He lived in several states with his mother, Deborah Mathers-Briggs, until they settled in suburban Detroit, when he was twelve.
The young Marshall grew very attached to his grandmother, Betty Kresin (today, habitual commentator of the behavior of his grandson in the press of the American heart). The relationship with his mother has been a constant source of conflict: he accuses her of being a liar and drug addict, and attributes her constant changes to her inability to find a stable job. For his part, Briggs told the BBC that he "spoiled" his son, who did not leave home until he was twenty-five.
Eminem, who has a fifteen-year-old younger brother, Nathan, had his childhood friend in his uncle Ronnie, his age (his grandmother had him the same year that his mother had him). In the early 1990s, Ronnie, of depressive tendencies, committed suicide. This episode provoked the definitive rupture of Marshall's relations with his mother, when she was responsible for the suicide.
At age fourteen, Marshall began dating Kimberley Anne Scott (who was then only twelve), another central character in Eminem's world. Their relationship has always been stormy, full of fights and reconciliations equally appalling: they were married in June 1999; Eminem filed for divorce in August 2000; Were reconciled at the end of the same year, and Kim filed for divorce in March 2001. In 1996, they had the girl Hailie Jade Mathers, the main object of Eminem's worship, in whose custody she has engaged in bitter legal battles with Kim.