Eminem says his addiction to prescription drugs left him with near-organ failure.
The 40-year-old rapper recounts his brush with death in an interview for new documentary How To Make Money Selling Drugs.
He remembers being rushed into hospital in a critical condition after a night of bingeing.
"Xanax, Valium, tomato,tomatoes, it's the same thing... F*** it, take it," he told filmmaker Matthew Cooke. "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. My bottom was gonna be death."
"People tried to tell me that I had a problem. I would say 'Get that f***ing person outta here. I'm not out there shooting heroin. I'm not f***ing out there putting coke up my nose. I'm not smoking crack'."
The rapper admits he relapsed just a month after being released from hospital.
However, he says he found strength in his role as a father to overcome his problems.
"I'm looking at my kids and [realising] 'I need to be here for this'," he muses. "Coming off everything, I literally was up 24 hours a day for three weeks straight. And I mean, not sleeping, not even nodding off for a f***king minute.
"I had to regain motor skills, I had to regain talking skills. It's been a learning process. I'm growing. I couldn't believe that anybody could be naturally happy without being on something. So I would say to anybody, 'It does get better'."
The documentary also includes interviews with Susan Sarandon, Woody Harrelson and Russell Simmons and is released this month.
