Hailie Jade Mathers got candid about growing up with rapper dad Eminem on a recent episode of her podcast Just A Little Shady.
She revealed she can’t listen to some of his songs – especially the ones about her – without sobbing.
Specifically, the social media influencer, 28, told her longtime friend and podcast cohost Brittany Ednie that she watched the video for Somebody Save Me, her dad’s recent collaboration with Jelly Roll.
‘I watched it in entirety and I don’t think I can do it again. I definitely cry every time I hear it at all,’ Hailie said.
‘It’s a great video. And it’s fun to see clips of us when we were younger like that,’ she said.
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Hailie Jade Mathers got candid about growing up with Eminem on a recent episode of her podcast Just A Little Shady
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In Somebody Save Me, Eminem raps: ‘Sorry that I chose drugs and put ’em above you / Sorry that I didn’t love you enough to give ’em up.’
In the video, footage from Hailie’s childhood with her siblings Alaina, 31, and Stevie, 35, flash by as Eminem watches them.
Eminem raps: ‘Hailey, I’m so sorry I wasn’t there for your first guitar recital,’ he raps as she’s shown playing a pink acoustic guitar as a teen.
In the song lyrics, he also shares his regrets about not walking her ‘down the aisle’ when she got married and missing the birth of her first child, which are things he would have missed had he died during his 2007 overdose.
Eminem, who battled prescription pill addiction in the past, has been sober for 16 years.
She continued, ‘Between that and Temporary, I mean, I can’t. I audibly sobbed I think for both songs but especially Temporary.
The Slim Shady artist dedicated Temporary to his daughter and addresses his eventual death in the song and urges her to move on from it and be happy.
Mockingbird is another tune Hailie can’t listen to without crying. ‘The older I get the less I can listen to any of the songs,’ she said.
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She revealed she can’t listen to some of his songs – especially the ones about her – without sobbing, Eminem seen here in Detroit in June 2024
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Specifically, the social media influencer, 28, told her longtime friend and podcast cohost Brittany Ednie that she watched the video for Somebody Save Me, her dad’s recent collaboration with Jelly Roll
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‘I watched it in entirety and I don’t think I can do it again. I definitely cry every time I hear it at all,’ Hailie said. Eminem pictured here at the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony
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‘It’s a great video. And it’s fun to see clips of us when we were younger like that,’ she said
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She also gained perspective on her childhood and gave her parent Eminem and Kim Scott credit for shielding her from the unsavory parts of their lives at the time.
‘I will say, like, watching the video back and listening to the songs, I feel like my parents did such a good job growing up where I didn’t realize how bad things were, she said.
‘But now as like, an adult in hindsight, it’s so scary to think about. And I think that’s why I get emotional so much, like just thinking that could have happened,’ she continued.
‘Obviously that’s the point of the song, but I will say like if you’ve ever lost an addict or a loved one, I feel for you and that’s how I feel about it.’
