Eminem's daughter 'struggled to understand her father's fame
Hailie Jade Mathers "didn't understand" her Eminem's because she was so young when he made it big but admitted it is now "fun" to look back on memories with the 'Lose Yourself' rapper.
Hailie Jade Mathers struggled to understand her father's fame.
The 27-year-old singer is the daughter of rap star Eminem - whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III - and his ex-wife Kim Scott but explained that her experience was "very different" to that of her father's brother Nate, 35, because she was only a tot when he shot to fame in the late 1990s even though it is "fun" to look back now.
Speaking to her uncle - who she refers to as a "brother-uncle" because they are relatively close in age - on her 'Just A Little Shady' podcast, she said: "See, that is probably why our experience was a lot different because I remember some things from before, but I didn't totally understand what was going on and you were definitely old enough to understand what was going on. Nate is my uncle -- my dad's younger brother -- but also we kind of grew up together, because Nate lived with us for a while when I was young. I would say [you are a] brother-uncle, you definitely act younger than your age. We are closer in age than you are to [my] dad, but still I never realised how much older you are than me because I feel like you are like a brother.
"It's so fun to look back [now], thinking back as an adult, I'm like, ‘Wow, that's so, so surreal.' those memories of me thinking those were normal things, now I look back like, ‘Holy crap, that was cool!"'
Music producer and actor Nate added that he began to "understand" the sudden fame of his elder brother - who also has Stevie Laine, 20, and also adopted his niece Alaina, 29, in the early 2000s when his late sister-in-law Dawn Scott was struggling with drug abuse - when he began to see him on TV.
He said: "I started understanding a little more when reality would hit when I would start seeing [Eminem] on TV and going to shows and all the signatures and crazy people. I am like, 'Alright, well this is real!'"
