4. Marriage To Kim Mathers: Round 1
Marshall Mathers III and Kimberly Scott met back in 1987 when he was 15 years old and she was only 13. Scott and Mathers eventually started dating in 1989 and there began one of the most volatile relationships in rap history. The two had a baby girl, Hailie Jade Scott, in 1995. The pressures of family life while trying to start a music career caused the couple to split for a short time in 1996.
The resentment he felt over the split lead to the creation of Eminem’s alter-ego, Slim Shady; a raging character who expressed his anger through rape, arson, and murder. Scott apparently saw past all of the traumatizing songs since she and Eminem later married in 1999. A year later, Eminem witnessed his wife kiss a male friend on the cheek in a parking lot. He assaulted the man and was arrested. This event was chronicled in a skit on one of his albums called The Kiss.
Scott went to go watch one of her husband’s shows in 2000 and he told her he wouldn’t perform the song Kim, however he did. He had a Kim look-alike blow-up doll on stage with him which he pretended to assault. Scott attempted suicide that night and in 2001, she filed for divorce.
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