Eminem: 'I considered suicide'

Eminem has admitted that he nearly took his own life at the height of his addiction problems.

The rapper, who releases his new album Relapse next week, claimed that he almost committed suicide after drug and alcohol dependency ruined his personal life.

"I just wasn't taking care of myself. At times I wanted to just give it up," he said while filming an interview for Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.

"I was in a dark place. I wanted to pull back from the spotlight to reassess my whole career. I got sober but it was pretty rough. A couple of years were bad for me," he added.

The 'We Made You' star recently revealed that on a different occasion he almost died of an overdose of methadone.