According to billboard.com, Eminem’s daughter Hailie Jade recently opened up about growing up with Eminem as her father in an Ask Me Anything themed episode of her podcast, Just A Little Shady, on Friday, September 16th. When asked, “Does it bother me when I get asked about my dad?” She replied that, “The best way to say this is yes and no … Honestly, it’s to a point. I obviously expect it. And there’s certain things I can understand why people are just genuinely curious about, as anyone would be when you’ve kind of grown up half in the spotlight.” However, she also made it clear that she wants to be seen as her own person, entirely separate from simply having a superstar as a parent.
“I feel like growing up, when it would happen, I would get more bothered by it because I was like, Why do people care? I was young and I didn’t totally understand the situation, so I was like, that’s my dad. I don’t ask you about your dad. And there are certain things that, yeah, that’s just weird that you want to know that, but then things that have been a little bit shared, I understand why people are like, ‘OK is this true?’ Some stuff it’s just like, that’s weird. Let’s move on.”
Eminem himself recently shared a very vulnerable essay about having to overcome an addiction and struggling with having depression at the start of his long career.
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