Debbie Mathers

I know most of you don't like Eminem's mom. But I'm asking you please not to insult her. Debbie remains Marshall's mom. So please, respect her at least for giving birth to the greatest rapper of all times. Debbie is gravely ill, she has breast cancer and she wishes to reconcile with Marshall. A Shady mom : Debbie Mathers Every Eminem listener knows that he hates his mom. Some people don't understand why the famous rapper expresses so much hatred about his own mom. Debbie Mathers seems to have a complex personality.She has abused her son emotionaly, verbally and even physically. She is a sick person who used to suffer from Munchhausen's syndrome (“...victim of Munchausen's syndrome, my whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't /till I grew up). This line from “Cleaning Out My Closet” defines Debbie's sickness. What is exactly “Munchhausen's syndrome” ? It's a kind of psychological illness that was discovered in 1977. A person with Munchausen's syndrome gives fake symptoms of illness and insists on the fact she is sick. This kind of sickness (which is Debbie's case) can also take the form of child abuse ( the mother uses the child's fake sickness to gain attention: this particular kind of desease is called Munchausen's syndrome by proxy. The mother makes her kid believe that he's sick and convincesd him to take some medication which creates other symptoms like vomiting for instance. Debbie Briggs Mathers is the first to make a drug addict of her own son. Eminem had to testify against her in Court and he shares his statements in an interview given to the “Rolling Stone” Magazine: “In Court I had to testify against her. Nate who was 9 at this time was too scared to testify against his mom. His mom made him believe he was an hyperactive kid and that hje was suffering from “Attention Deficit Disorder” . My mother said I was a hyper kid and I wasn't, he said. She put me on Ritalin.” Debbie who pretends that she still loves her sons and that she suffers a lot from his rejection also filed a 10 Million dollars lawsuit against him for defamation in June 1999 because on the verses of the song “My Name Is”: “I just found out my mom does more dope than I do”. He jokes about in his song “Marshall Mathers”:”My fucking bitch mom is suing lme for 10 Million : she must want a dollar for every pill I've been stealing/ Shit where the fuck do you think I picked the habit/All I had was to go in her room and lift a mattress. “ But the whole story started with the interview Eminem gave in the Source Magazine called “fear of a white rapper” where the rapper relates many facts about his childhood. As we know, there is no defamation in telling the truth. That's exactly what Eminem points out in the same interview:”As bizarre as my shit might be, it's still the reflection of the truth. When I say my mom does more dope than me, people I'm just craking jokes, but that shit is real. It's part of my childhood. 100 % fucking true.” Of course Debbie denies his allegations. But for Eminem , truth always matters. He is well known for always speaking his mind. There are hidden reasons for Debbie's lawsuit , but we can guess them easily. Filing a lawsuit is a good way to make dollars the good old American way. Marshall also declined an out of Court offer to settle a 10 Million dollars lawsuit for 2 Million dollars. It shows how much she was in need of money. Paul Rosenberg, Eminem's manager, managed to prove the authenticity of Eminem's allegations. Later on , Debbie filed another lawsuit for 1 Million dollars because her son said “She does have no leg to stand on (in her defamation suit) and she's looking for things I say in my interviews to help her.” Debbie is also known as a “bingo addict”. She also wants a lot of publicity. She released a record ( a three song CD) with X-ID where she addresses an open letter to her son .It is called “ Dear Marshall”: dear *Marshall*, I just wanna start out by saying I still love you even when i was pregnant with you it was very hard for me so many times of torture was worth every minute of it cuz wen i looked in to those big blue eyes this was the first time i had ever felt true love in my whole life we have a problem marshall the past 2 years..something really went wrong i was so excited about your success yet so let down by your betrayal playing the role of both mum & dad must of taken a toll on you more then i ever imagined *marshall* i did the best i could i went without seeking half it was rong of me and i see it now as giving you everything and never questioning ne thing you eva did as you were perfect in my eyes my unconditional love created a spoiled young man an angry one too now before god and every1 i must apologise cuz at the time i thought it was the right thing to do im torchered daily *Marshall* by people always asking me where such an angry young man .................... being the only role model in your life, of course they're gonna blame me the demeanin me needs to stop and i speak 4 lots of mothers the words really hurt and they cut like a knife but theres no way to mend a bleedin heart if not 4my frenz who ave been there for me and yes *marshall* they really truely care i pray some day your not going to be alone and you'll ave frenz like me.....and they wont be there just for your fame and no more attacks on me and vicious acts of heat cuz it really hurts will the real Marshall Mathers please stand up? and take responsibility 4his actions and im gonna close this *marsh* by saying its not too late for change and always sincerely your mother It sounds like a comedy knowing so many facts about Debbie. When Marshall was a little boy, she used to treat him so badly.Once she came back home, and for no appearant reasons, she hit him, spat at his face, calling him “little bastard”. Debbie has deeply hurt her son, what does she expect from him in return. The worst sentence she has ever said to her son can be found in “Cleaning Out My Closet : “Remember when Ronnie died and you said you wished it was me”. This sentence is killing love forever. In the “Sally Raphael Show”, Debbie said that her son Marshall has been told by managers what to write in his songs and that his rage is just artistic expression. People who know Eminem as an artist also know that he is not a commercial rapper . He has enough money and he doesn't need to dis his own mom for recognition. Debbie claims to be a good mom, but many other facts are talking against her. When she left Marshall Mathers Jr, she didn't spend his early years with Marshall. In fact, Eminem's great aunt from Missouri, Edna Swartz, was taking care of him. Debbie is also known for her instable relationships to men. She was dating many men. She's been married four times. Don De Marc, her former boyfriend says: “She complained of headaches, backaches and toothaches, she always seemed to be in pain. She was always looking for pain pills.” He also insists on her irrational character. Nate is Eminem's half brother.He's been placed in a foster family for one year, because Debbie was abusive towards him. Fred J. Samra (Nate's Dad) also expressed about her :”She is lying about drugs and stuff, I won't say any more.You would not believe the shit he( Marshall) has been through. One of Debbie's former husbands, Berger Olsen Au Gres remembers the time he was married to Debbie: “She was throwing him of the house all the time. I remeber Marshall telling her : “I want to do my rap, and when I do, I'm going to do all about you.” Marshall Mathers is lucky to have found some consolation in his music , even if he is still hurt from his horrible past. His music helps a lot of kids who come from broken homes to overcome their problems. “Cleaning Out My Closet” is a real therapy for kids from dysfunctional families.

“You selfish bitch, I hope you fucking burn in hell for this shit " (Eminem, “Cleaning Out My Closet”) Is Debbie Mathers one of the most hated women in Detroit? If you ask me, I'd say “pretty much”. A lot of people dislike Debbie because of the picture Marshall is portraying of her in his songs. She pretends that her son had to live up an image and that the content of his songs are just “artistic expression”. She pretends her son to be lying, but she doesn't want to call him a “fake”... The facts tend to dement Debbie's version. So many people, including her ex husbands and boyfriends have testified against her. Even Nathan, her second son described her as “nuts”. One thing is sure: Marshall's childhood has been more than traumatic and has left deep wounds inside of him. We may ask: how was Debbie's own childhood? Can her instable behavior be explained? Maybe yes. Debbie Nelson is Bob Nelson and Betty Kresin's first child. She was born in 1955. Appearently, Betty and Bob's marriage just didn't work out. Betty Kresin pretends that her ex husband was verbally abusive. She left him: "I hate to say it, but Debbie had a very hard life. I left Mr. Nelson, married on the rebound and had two more children." About the way she raised Marshall, Betty says : « She done the best she could do. Sometimes we get in a pattern and her husband did her about like Bob Nelson done me." The situation worsened when Betty married Ron Gilpin, who was physically violent and alcoholic. He used to beat his wife. He left his family in 1968: "I was real lucky to live. Can you imagine what that done to Debbie? She was about 12 years old." Debbie used to grow up in an instable home and was surrounded by violence and this my partly explain why she made Marshall live a traumatic childhood. Debbie Mathers seems to have an irrational and instable character. It is also well known that she had a lot of men in her life. Betty remembers the boyfriend who devastated her appartment: 'Debbie had a lot of men in and out of her life, including one memorable boyfriend called Charlie. He went home and destroyed their duplex - even cutting up their king-sized waterbed. She called me crying, asking me to help clean up the flood.' Kim confirms what we already know: Debbie used to constantly kick Marshall out of her house: "It was rough, to say the least. She kicked us out every other day, threw temper tantrums, threw (things) at us." The situation with Debbie was so unbearable that Marshall had to move to friends' home when he was 20. DJ Rec recalls: “"It was basically that his mom was screwed up and he didn't want to be around it, Marshall didn't do any drugs or drink. He was just dating Kim off and on and doing the music thing, that's about it. He moved in with us because he didn't have nowhere else to go." Of course, Debbie Mathers gives us another version of the facts. She manages to present herself like a victim: a victim of her protective behavior towards Marshall, a victim of Kim's jealousy, a victim of the records labels wishes for Eminem's lyrics etc... In fact, Debbie never questions herself about the mistakes she could have made in the past. She even manages to justify her 12 Million dollars lawsuit against her son. Then she claims to love him. The same sick song again and again. As Eminem points it out (Betty Kresin said nearly the same about her own daughter's love for lawsuits): "My mother never worked, so her income was lawsuits. My mother was in K-Mart and my brother hit her with a toy, and she said a rack fell on her and sued K-Mart… » Men used to be another income ressource for Debbie: « My mother would move them in, now able to laugh at the memory, and then she would kick them out and keep their stuff." (Eminem) But the worst was Debbie's sickness (Munchausen's syndrome) : "My mother said I was a hyper kid and I wasn't. She put me on Ritalin." Nobody would take Debbie seriously when so many people testify against her. Her own son Nathan wouldn't describe her as nuts if she had a normal behavior. In fact, Marshall can be lucky to have overcome his horrible past. He can be proud to be where he is now, as he told it to Howard Stern: “I look back on where I came from and I'm kind of proud.” The only person who really sticks up for her is Todd Nelson who seems to have the same financial interest than her sister. Todd Nelson's attitude is a shame. He is trying to make money out of any little document from Marshall and he spreads as many rumors in different magazines. Money is his only motivation. In my opinion, this man is a pityful loser. He even dared stating in his tape “The Man Behind the Mask” that he taught Marshall how to rap. Can you picture Todd Nelson standing in front of the camera with a guitar and pointing out ridiculous statements such as those? Who is going to believe him? Uncle Todd also wants his nephew to look like a lier in front of the world. He totally denies that Debbie abused her son and is trying to explain Marshall's anger through the absence of his dad: "Marshall was always very resentful over not having a father figure in his life. Growing up, he felt like he missed out on a lot. "But all this stuff about him being abused as a child, is so far from the truth, it's just laughable. "Debbie did everything she could for him when he was growing up. She bought him his first car - a Lincoln Continental - and ran around after him so he didn't have to take responsibility for anything. She's done the same thing with her youngest, Nathan, and he's growing up to be an equally spoiled brat." Nelson is very eager to make money out of Marshall's name. He has even built his own website using the rappers name. Of course, (you guessed it) you got to pay to access to the family pictures and other former documents. Todd pretends that the way Marshall portrays his mom in 8 Mile is a total lie. He says that Debbie received a consequent amont of money from Universal Pictures to keep silent for three years: "Debbie told me Universal Pictures were going to pay her £50,000 over three years in return for her silence. "They didn't want her doing any interviews or making any comment on the film because they wanted cinemagoers to believe it was Eminem's life story they were seeing up there on the screen. "But Debbie knew the truth. It's not something she did for the money, despite what people might think. "She did it for Marshall because that's what he wanted and she's desperate to be reconciled with him." Who would believe Todd's story? Marshall is rich enough, he doesn't need to fake the truth. According to the latest news on Debbie, she is gravely ill. She is battling with breast cancer and she would love to reconcile with her son. Of course, she has been through a lot since Marshall is famous as her brother points it out: “Debbie can't go out anywhere in Detroit without being recognised. And normally it ends up with her being abused or attacked. "She's had everything from eggs thrown at her to cigarette butts flicked at her. She got so fed up with people cursing or staring at her that she'll only do her shopping in the middle of the night. "It's a terrible way to live and nobody deserves what she's been through." There is no excuse for Eminem fans acting like this. I could never picture myself insulting Debbie in real life. After all, she remains Marshall's mom. And even for giving birth to the most talented rapper, she deserves respect. Knowing his mom is facing terminal cancer and that she feels lost and hopeless, maybe it would be high time for mom and son to forget about the past and to reconcile for each of them to live peacefully. Debbie Mathers' recent reconciliation attempt with Marshall

A mom is making desperate attempts to reconcile with her son. She is dying of breast cancer. A dramatic situation. This woman happens to be Eminem's mom. In a recent article from “The Mirror”, she claims: “I am dying of cancer but my son Eminem won't pay to save me”: Debbie loses weight every day. She faces banktrupcy over the medical fees for her cancer treatment. Moreover, she is heartbroken because her son Marshall remains angry with her. Is Marshall a monster for leaving his mom alone in such dramatic situation? Certainly not. Marshall is an abused child who is still hurt by what his mom did to him when he was a kid. Of course, he has exorcised most of the demons from his past in songs like “Cleaning Out My Closet”, but deep inside he must still feel wounded. Many kids wouldn't have overcome such circumstances. Luckily, Marshall did. Some of his detractors often argue that Debbie is treated badly by her son Marshall because he's a blatent mysogynist- which is untrue. Debbie always wants to appear a a perfect mom in front of the media. Each time I have seen her on TV, her language clearly showed how much she wanted to prove which kind of good and overprotective mom she was towards her first son. The trouble is, many facts dement her statements as well as many people such as Kim and her former husbands and boyfriends witness the contrary. So many people who used to live with Debbie or who knew her personnaly can testify how sick her behavior was. Also, which mom would dare suing her own son for a total amount of 12 million dollars and then claim she never intented to sue him, that it was Kim's fault? “I never intended to sue my son. The lawsuit was my attempt to hold on to my home. I'd given Marshall my trailer to rent when I moved back to Missouri. But Kim fell behind with the payments. I figured I had to sell it to pay the debt, but she wouldn't let me. She threatened me with a lawyer, so I consulted one myself. Then the whole thing just escalated. The first thing I knew, I swear, was when Marshall rang me and said, 'Mom, why are you suing me for $10 million?' I nearly fell over. It was ludicrous. Then word got out and the world saw me as an evil bitch from hell. What mother sues her own son? I was cursed in public, spat at in shopping malls.” Debbie always expected Marshall to apologize. Did I understand well? Yes, Debbie wants Marshall to apologize. For abusing him? For denouncing true facts about Debbie in his lyrics? Maybe this is precisely where the problem lies: Debbie doesn't want to admit her fault which is exactly what hurts Marshall so much and maybe the main reason why he doesn't manage to forgive her: “ See what hurts me the most is you won't admit you was wrong...” (Eminem, Cleaning Out My Closet”) Many Eminem fans may think that Eminem doesn't talk to his mom any more, but it is untrue. No matter how bad their relationship may be, they are both still in touch.

Debbie feels the urge to reconcile with Marshall, she is very conscious that her life may end soon. Despite all that happened between mom and son, Marshall needs to realize the emergency of the situation: his mom may die soon and it is always horrible to cope with the death of relatives without any sign of forgiveness. But Debbie, just one question: Why don't you admit you were wrong with your son? If you were honest enough to admit your mistakes, you'd recover the son you pretend to love so much.