Rapper Eminem's first rehab stint was a failure because he spent much of his time trying to protect his belongings from opportunist fellow patients.
The Not Afraid hitmaker enrolled in a rehabilitation centre to get help for an addiction to prescription pills six years ago, but the experience was a nightmare waste of time that ultimately led him back to drugs.
He tells GQ magazine, "Every addict in rehab feels like everyone's staring at them. With me, everyone was staring at me. I could never be comfortable. There were people there that treated me normal. Then there were a bunch of f**king idiots who aren't even concentrating on their own sobriety because they're so worried about mine. They're stealing my hats, my books - it was chaos.
"Everything was drama in there. And, at the time, I didn't really want to get clean. Everybody else wanted me to. And anyone will tell you, if you're not ready, nothing is going to change you."
It took a pre-Christmas overdose less than a month after he checked out of rehab to bring him to his senses.
Waking up in hospital, he recalls, "I didn't know what the f**k happened. Tubes in me and s**t, f**kin' needles in my arms. I didn't realise I had (overdosed). I wanted my drugs.
"I think I was clean for two weeks. I was trying so hard. I was trying to do it for my kids, but I just wasn't ready."
And the star admits his fear of dying ultimately forced him to clean up his act, adding, "(One day) I had a feeling in my arm that was weird, man. Like, it really freaked me out. So I went to some people I trust and said, 'Look, I know I need help. I'm ready now.' I got a room in the same hospital where I overdosed, and I detoxed."