Furious Carey lashes out at Eminem over voicemail stunt
He is already battling with drugs, litigious relatives and tens of thousands of disappointed fans. Now Eminem, who cancelled his European tour last week to seek treatment for a sleeping-pill addiction, has another problem: an angry woman on the warpath.
The foul-mouthed rapper has reportedly enraged the singer Mariah Carey, after he broadcast, during his recent US concerts, voicemails she allegedly left for him. The messages, supposedly recorded when the two collaborated four years ago, feature her begging: "I heard you were getting back with your ex-wife. Why won't you see me? Why won't you call me?" With the sneering misogyny that is his stock-in-trade, Eminem played the messages on stage before pretending to vomit and launching into his song Puke.
Carey denies his claims that they had an affair while he worked on her 2001 album Charmbracelet. Now she is giving a magazine her own, no-holds-barred, account of the time they spent together.
In revelations that could scandalise the libidinous world of rap, her kiss-and-tell will reveal that there was no kissing at all. "Did I have a sexual relationship with him? No, I didn't," she tells next month's Maxim magazine. "I knew him, I hung out with him a few times, but nothing sexual occurred. Maybe he thought because nothing happened he'd look bad or something."
According to reports in the New York Post last week, the singer denies that the voice on the messages is hers. The newspaper quoted a "friend" as saying: "That is not her voice on the 'messages' played in the concert - it is an imposter. She is considering suing him for defamation. They did hang out, but it was Eminem who followed her around."
Carey's attack on Eminem rounds off what has been arguably the grimmest week in his career. According to a statement from his publicist, the 32-year-old singer has checked himself into Detroit's Brighton Hospital for treatment for dependency on the sleeping drug, Ambien, after months of insomnia.
The announcement came days after Eminem cancelled his European tour, scheduled to run from September 1 in Hamburg, to September 17 near Dublin, citing "exhaustion, complicated by other medical issues". Speculation is rife that the singer, who finished his tour in the US earlier this month, may now retire from his role as white America's top rapper.
To add to his woes, his aunt and uncle, Jack and Betty Schmitt, have filed a lawsuit claiming that he is trying to evict them from the home he had built for them. They want more than $350,000 (£190,000) and possession of the property. (Telegraph - Mariah Hero)
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