Eminem bites back after Kim's barrage on radio

Ex-wife attacks sex life, drug habit; Em retorts 'she's hurting the children.'

Adam Graham / Detroit News Pop Music Writer

I n an explosive interview with WKQI-FM's (95.5) "Mojo in the Morning" show Friday, Eminem's ex-wife Kim Mathers flipped the tables on Em and cleaned out her closet live on the air for all to hear.

"I can't stand him. He's an absolutely horrible person, and he gets worse every day," Mathers said. "I vomit in my mouth whenever I'm around him or I hear his name. There's nothing left in me for him. Nothing at all."

She categorized sex with her twice ex-husband as "bad," and said "he's not very well endowed." She added, "If you're going to have sex with Marshall, make sure you have a little blue pill, because otherwise it does not work."

Mathers said Em text-messaged her on Thursday when he heard she was going to appear on the "Mojo in the Morning" show, and blasted her for going on the air.

"It's a shame that I've moved on and Kim hasn't," Eminem said in a statement released Friday afternoon via his Interscope Records publicist, Dennis Dennehy.

"Her ongoing press campaign is doing nothing but harm to the children, and for that I feel truly sorry. For their sake I wish she would stop."

The two were first married in 1999 and divorced several years later. They re-married in January 2006 at Rochester's Meadow Brook Hall, and Em filed for divorce in April of last year.

Mathers, who has long been the subject of the vitriolic ire in Eminem's songs, said she viewed the interview as her chance to speak up in defense of herself. Unsurprisingly, the venue was Channel 955, which has long been a sounding board for the Mathers through all their trials and tribulations.

Each has been a frequent caller to the station over the years. Mathers phoned the radio station last April after she was served with divorce papers from Eminem; and Em announced his reconciliation with Mathers on the air to the station in one of only two interviews he granted to promote his greatest hits LP, "Curtain Call: The Hits," in December 2005.

The station has said that the Mathers are like their extended family. "Mojo in the Morning" co-host Spike said he was dealing with phone calls from media outlets from around the world after the interview aired Friday.

"When you're on the phone with the London Daily Telegraph, you've either done something right or something very wrong," he said.

When Mathers started spouting off about Eminem's endowment, Spike said he and the rest of the studio were "dumbfounded."

"We were looking around at each other going, 'Is she really saying all this?' We didn't expect it to go to that level."

As it approached "that level," show host Mojo stopped the train on its tracks before she could go any further. Spike says the show tries to stay neutral in matters concerning the Mathers, and that they don't editorialize to maintain a good relationship with both parties.

Also during Mathers' interview, she said despite Eminem's stay in rehab for his addiction to sleeping medication, he "never stopped his old lifestyle."

In addition to the sexual and drug-related issues, Mathers said, "His relationship with the kids has (gone) downhill." Besides Hailie, the couple also cares for Hailie's cousin, Alaina, and Mathers has a 4-year-old daughter, Whitney, from a different relationship.

She also cited issues with compassion. Mathers said after she attempted suicide after one of Em's concerts in 2000, Eminem reacted by saying he hoped she didn't expect him to miss any concerts because of the incident.

In continuing to put to rest the rumors of Mathers and Em's reunion, she said she is "100 percent" sure she will never get back together with the rapper, and she would never date anybody famous again.

Mathers, who said she has thought about authoring a book about her time with Eminem, appeared on Friday's episode of "The Dr. Keith Ablow Show." However, she said the appearance -- taped locally in December -- was only a pre-interview and she never knew it was going to air. "I never even met Dr. Keith Ablow," she said.

Mathers also recently discussed her relationship with Eminem on ABC's "20/20."

You can reach Adam Graham at (313) 222-2284 or agraham@ detnews.com.