Eminem celebrated 18 years of sobriety following his past addiction to prescription pills.

Eminem’s latest achievement is a huge stepping stone in his sobriety journey.

The 15-time Grammy winner—who has been open about his past addiction to prescription pills—shared he’s celebrating 18 years of sobriety.

In an April 20 Instagram post, Eminem (born Marshall Bruce Mathers III) shared a zoomed in photo of himself wearing a graphic T-shirt while holding up a coin to mark the special milestone.

“To thine own self be true,” the coin’s outer edge read, while “unity, service, recovery” was etched in a triangle formation at the center around the number 18 in Roman numerals.

As Eminem, 53, captioned the snap alongside a gold medal emoji, “XVIII.”

Previously, “The Real Slim Shady” rapper opened up about his addiction to prescription pills—which included Vicodin, Valium, Ambien and Xanax—starting in the late ‘90s until around 2008, which led to a frightening health scare.

“I got into this vicious cycle of, ‘I’m depressed so I need more pills,’” Eminem said in his 2025 documentary Stans, per Us Weekly. “Then your tolerance gets so high that you end up overdosing.”

“I woke up in the hospital and I didn’t know what happened,” he added. “I woke up in the hospital with tubes in me and s–t and I couldn’t get up, I wanted to move.”

The “Mockingbird” hitmaker—dad to kids Hailie Jade, 30, Alaina Marie, 33, and Stevie Laine, 24, with ex-wife Kim Scott—noted that when he returned home, he felt like he “needed something” and that he was “gonna die” without making a change.

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The “Stepping Stone” rapper also opened up about how missing one of his eldest daughter’s birthday parties acted as a wakeup call.

“I cried because it was like, ‘Oh my god, I missed that,’” Eminem explained. “I kept saying to myself, ‘Do you want to f–king miss this again? Do you want to miss everything? If you can’t do it for yourself, you f–king p—y, at least do it for them.’”

As a result, he recalled, “I realized I’m never doing this again.”

And his past drug use didn’t just affect his family life. Indeed, the music legend shared that at the beginning of his sobriety journey, he needed to “relearn how to walk, talk and for the most part had to relearn how to rap again.”

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“My writing had gotten terrible,” he said in the doc. “When I started to get it back, it was exciting. Because I felt it. It would be conversations, just having conversations with people or the TV.”

And while working on his 2009 album Relapse, which detailed his experience with sobriety, he felt empowered to leave the shame of his addiction behind.

“It did something. It turned the light on,” Eminem said. “I realized I’m not embarrassed anymore about [sobriety]. I started treating sobriety like a superpower and I took pride in the fact that I was able to quit.”