Debbie Nelson passed away at the age of 69 last Monday, 2
Nathan “Nate” Mathershalf-brother of Eminemspoke about his mother’s death, Debbie Nelsonlast Tuesday, 3.
In an Instagram story, he wrote: “Hate and mixed emotions today.”
Debbie passed away at the age of 69, this Monday, 2, in St. Joseph, Missouri, confirmed the magazine People. She died as a result of complications from lung cancer.
According to the memoir of Nelson, My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem (2008), she was born into a “dysfunctional family” that she had to support from the age of ten, when her parents divorced.
Nelson married Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr.father of Eminemat 16 years old. Two years later, they welcomed the rapper. The father ended up abandoning mother and son.
Nathanwho is now a music producer, is the result of a relationship between Debbie and the then boyfriend Fred Samra.
See this photo on InstagramA post shared by Nathan “Nate Kane” Mathers (@nathankanemathers)
Eminem13 years older, became his younger brother’s legal guardian when Nathan He was already 16 years old and had been up for adoption for a decade.
In an interview with Rolling Stone USA in 2004, the rapper recalled: “I cried just going to see him at the shelter. The day they took him, I was the only one allowed to see him. They took him out of school. He had no idea what was going on . The same thing that happened in my life was happening in his” (via People).
“When he was taken, I always said that if I was ever in a position to care for him, I would. I tried to request full custody when I was 20, but I didn’t have the resources,” he said.
Source: Rollingstone
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