Rapper Eminem says he stopped taking drugs after he "almost died" from a near fatal overdose in 2007.

"I had overdosed in 2007, like right around Christmas in 2007. I pretty much almost died. You know, I pulled through and went home and relapsed less than a month later and I literally shot back up to the amount of pills I was taking, shot right back up to where I overdosed," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Eminem as saying.