Rap star Eminem has blasted his soon-to-be ex-wife Kim Mathers following her appearance on a radio show to talk about their divorce - slamming her claims about his sleeping pill addiction as "untrue."
One day after Eminem filed divorce papers, and 83 days after they remarried, Kim Mathers called WKQI-FM's "Mojo in the Morning" show to tell her side of the story.
"He's having problems with, you know, his problem that he had," she said of the sleep medication dependency for which Eminem was hospitalized last summer. "I was hoping we could get counseling and work it out, you know? ..."
"Right after he came home from his rehab, we started to have a few problems, and I thought it was going to be in our best interest to delay the wedding," she said. "But he really pushed it and I thought it was really going to be something that worked this time." She revealed that Eminem has not spoken with her in about six weeks and surprised her by having her served with divorce papers at her Macomb County home.
Eminem immediately issued a statement that read, "The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. However, a few of Kim's statements in a radio interview this morning need to be addressed."
"First, her allegations regarding my status post-rehab are both untrue and unfortunate. Second, she was aware that I was filing for divorce. We both tried to give our marriage another chance and quickly realized that a wedding doesn't fix the underlying problems."
