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Debbie Nelson, Eminem's Mother, Dies at 69

Debbie Nelson, the mother of rapper Eminem, has died. She was 69.

A rep for Eminem confirms to PEOPLE that Nelson died in the evening on Monday, Dec. 2, in St. Joseph, Mo., from complications related to lung cancer. TMZ was first to report the news of Nelson's death.

News of her illness was first reported by multiple outlets in September.

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Nelson was born in 1955 on a military base in Kan. and said she grew up in a "large dysfunctional family," according to her 2008 memoir, My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem. Her parents split up before she turned 10, she wrote in the book, leaving her responsible to provide for the family as the oldest of five children.

At age 16, she married Eminem's father, Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. Two years later, she welcomed the "Lose Yourself" rapper in 1972.

Eminem, 52, and Nelson had a rocky relationship throughout her life. He apparently called her out in his 2002 song "Cleanin' Out My Closet," which led to Nelson suing her son for $11 million for defamation.

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Eminem's mother, Debbie Nelson, dies aged 69

Debbie Nelson, the mother of rapper Eminem, has died at the age of 69.

Her death was confirmed by Eminem's representative Dennis Dennehy on Tuesday.

The cause of death is yet to be confirmed, although Ms Nelson had battled lung cancer.

Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, often highlighted the strained relationship he had with his mother in his music.

In two of his most popular songs, My Name Is and Cleanin' Out My Closet, he accuses Ms Nelson of drug abuse and neglect.

In the 2002 hit Cleanin' Out My Closet he says: "Witnessin' your mama poppin' prescription pills in the kitchen". He later claims she was "trying to take what you didn't help me to get".

Later the same year, a fictionalised version of his mother who is an alcoholic, was played by Kim Basinger in the semi-autobiographical film 8 Mile which the rapper also stars in.

Ms Nelson brought and settled a pair of defamation lawsuits over Eminem's statements about her in magazines and on radio talk shows.

But in her 2008 book My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem, she attempted to set the record straight.

The book's blurb claims that she was a "single mother who wanted the world for her son, only to see herself defamed and shut out when he got it", Sky