Born in 1955 at a army base in Kansas, Debbie is the mom of Eminem.
She married the “With out Me” artist’s father Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. when she was 15, in response to her 2008 memoir My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem. She grew to become pregnant with Eminem 16 months later and relocated to Michigan, the place her maternal grandmother lived.
Debbie and Eminem’s strained relationship has been documented in a number of of his songs, together with his 2002 smash hit “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.” Within the observe, he alleged that Debbie abused prescription drugs when he was younger—which she denied in her autobiography.
“What mom needs to be generally known as a pill-popping alcoholic who lives on welfare?” she wrote. “None of it was true, however the fibs stored getting greater, and in the end Marshall and I grew to become estranged.”
Nonetheless, Eminem has since expressed remorse in airing out his household drama. In his 2013 track “Headlights,” he rapped, “I went in headfirst, by no means serious about who, what I mentioned harm / In what verse, my mother most likely obtained it the worst.”
Nelson died on the age of 69 in 2024 following a battle with most cancers.
