EX Mrs Eminem explains some (Detroit Free Press article)

February 15, 2007
Kim Mathers, her second 15 minutes of fame quickly expiring, turns up on Friday’s “The Dr. Keith Ablow Show” (1 p.m., WJBK-TV, Channel 2) to talk about –what else?– her two marriages to Detroit rap king Eminem (Marshall Mathers). The pre-show publicity said she viewed her first marriage as a way to keep him “faithful and grounded” when he went on tour, but “When Marshall’s first tour started is when his ego just went ‘poof.’ You know he was untouchable. Like he was God, that’s what he thought.”
Then when they re-wed in January 2006, she said: ” ‘Let’s just go through the ceremony but not sign the marriage license.’ Because I was just afraid of what would happen if we had to go through a divorce, our kids. And then 41 days later, Feb. 25, Marshall left.”
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One other utterance: “I believe that Marshall has issues on how to express his love and I don’t think he knows how to treat women because he wasn’t treated well by his mother. He still had a lot of anger towards her.”