PHOTOS: Drug use seems to have destroyed Eminem

Latest pictures of rapper, Eminem seem to be edging towards authenticating his confession sometime ago, that his past drug use almost cost him his life.

A lot of people did not like how the rapper looked as he spoke at the Wall Street Journal's Innovator Of The Year awards in New York on Wednesday.

MailOnline reports that Eminem's drug abuse started during the filming of his movie 8 Mile, when he was on set 16 hours a day and could not sleep.

The report further states that “after being given an Ambien he sought out a prescription, and became hooked on the pills.

“This soon led to him taking what he calls a 'ridiculous amount' of pills - he has admitted to abusing prescription drugs Ambien, Vicodin and Valium”.

He went into rehab in 2005 and then took a three-year break from his career, before releasing the albums Relapse and Recovery.

He once said in a documentary: “Had I got to the hospital about two hours later, I would have died. My organs were shutting down. My liver, kidneys, everything.

“They were gonna have to put me on dialysis, they didn’t think I was gonna make it”