Debbie Nelson, who had a rocky relationshp with her son, rapper Eminem, died Monday in St. Joseph, Missouri at age 69 after battling cancer, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Brian McCollum of the Freep reports:
Eminem had not publicly commented on his mother’s passing as of Tuesday afternoon. The rapper is scheduled to perform Saturday at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the United Arab Emirates.
Their jagged mother-son relationship was chronicled for years by Eminem in song, including hits such as “Cleanin’ Out my Closet.” The internecine hostility also played out in media interviews given by both, becoming one of the trademark traits of Eminem’s public profile during the early years of his career.
The two became estranged during that first stretch of his success, and Nelson even sued her son for defamation.
In 2008, she published a memoir, “My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem,” with the subtitle “Setting the record straight on my life as Eminem’s mother.”
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