Eminem: Drugs wiped out five years of my life

Eminem says that pills took five years of his life.

The rapper has admitted that his drug problems affected his memory.

“I try to stay recording, because if I don’t, I get rusty. I’m very paranoid about writer’s block — I had it for four years, and it drove me f***ing crazy. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t think of s**t,” he said.

“The pills had a lot to do with it. Just wiping out brain cells. I don’t know if it sounds like I’m making excuses, but the absolute truth is a lot of my memory is gone. I don’t know if you’ve ever taken Ambien, but it’s kind of a memory-eraser. That s**t wiped out five years of my life.

“People will tell me stories, and it’s like, ‘I did that?’ I saw myself doing this thing on [TV network] BET recently, and I was like, ‘When was that?’ ”