Eminem Died: D12 Confirm's Shady's OD & Rehab, 'He Flatlined'

Detroit group D12 opened up about rapper, Eminem's drug overdose during an interview with The Breakfast Club and say the 43-year-old star "flatlined" and entered rehab following his depression over his best friend, Proof's death.

In an interview with The Breakfast Club, Oct. 30, Kuniva addressed why it took them so long for them to drop their mixtape since the death of their bandmate Proof in 2006, Devil's Night, "We been down. We pretty much lost the drive to do music once Proof died. They just took it out of us." He explained, "It was right after Bugz pretty much, because we were still trying to heal over Bugz and then how proof went out, it was like 'I'm done.'"

He revealed that even the group's leader couldn't handle the loss and nearly lost his life, "Even Em, he almost died just outta depression and being on drugs going heavy into drugs and just tryna escape that pain. He flatlined... he came back, he overdosed. Everybody went through their own struggles and it was like we don't want to do it," he said referring to the delayed release.

After Eminem's overdose, D12 said that they decided to come together and help their bandmate heal, "When he was healing, he had his own time to himself and we were still doing our own thing too. At the part that's when we realized we were really low because they were saying that he wasn't going to make it."

 "Sometimes you see your homeboy like they can't die, they're super heroes. I can't imagine not seeing him right here. So, when something happens to him... I didn't know how fragile all of this was, so seeing Em like that and seeing tubes everywhere, it was too surreal. After that, that's when we started building and getting back on track. He was in rehab and doing what he was doing to get himself right, we were doing the same thing," he said.