Eminem's grandmother Betty dead at 87 after battle with breast cancer... over a year after rapper's mom passed

Eminem's maternal grandmother Betty has reportedly died at age 87 following a battle with breast cancer.

Sources close to the family have told TMZ that Betty passed due to complications with the disease at her Missouri home on Tuesday.  

The rapper, 53, was reportedly not present for her passing. 

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Eminem for comment. 

In a 2000 interview, Betty described being heartbroken over the road Eminem had gone down and even torched his music as 'vile' and 'disgusting.' 

'Neither his mother Debbie nor I can figure out what happened to this sweet, caring youngster. In just over 12 years he's gone from telling me "Grandma I love you," to "Go to hell." It just breaks my heart,' she told The Mirror newspaper. 

'When I hear his vile disgusting lyrics I can’t believe this is my Marshall, the same boy who used to come and sit on my lap,' she said. 

The loss comes over a year after the death of Betty's daughter and Eminem's mother, Debbie Nelson.  

She passed following a battle with advanced lung cancer in December 2024, TMZ reported.

Eminem - real name Marshall Mathers - and his mother endured a strained relationship that's played out in the public eye since the rapper came to fame over 25 years ago, but the duo had made an effort to repair the relationship.

During their rocky relationship, Eminem referred to his mother on the My Name Is track from the 1999 album The Slim Shady LP, which ultimately led to Debbie taking legal action against her son.

In the song, the rapper claimed his mother did 'more dope than' he did.

Debbie responded to her son by suing him for $11 million, claiming defamation of character.

The rapper and record producer's lawyer then released a statement on behalf of his client saying that the lawsuit was as a 'result of a lifelong strained relationship' between the pair.

The lawsuit culminated with Debbie receiving $25,000 - most of which went to her lawyer. A judge ruled that Debbie was only entitled to $1,600 of the settlement, ABC News reported in 2001.

In an interview in 2008, Debbie admitted she wanted to put their differences aside.

She told Village Voice: 'I'm not ever gonna give up on my kids. I won't give up on anybody.

'There's hope for everybody. It's a matter of just basically swallowing your pride. It's like a cashed check. It's over, it's done. You need to move on.'

By 2013, Eminem released 'Headlights' as an apology to his mom.

He spat: 'I went in headfirst, never thinking about who what I said hurt/My mom probably got it the worst.'

Eminem added: 'And I'm mad I didn't get the chance to thank you for being my mom and my dad/So Mom, please accept this as a tribute I wrote on this jet.'

He apologized for the song Cleanin' Out My Closet, a track where he slammed her.

'But I’m sorry mama for ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet,’ at the time I was angry,' he raps. 'That song I no longer pay at shows and I cringe every time it’s on the radio,' he adds.

During a previous interview on BET, Eminem said of his mother: 'At the end of the day she's my mother, and I love her because she's my mother.

'Even though we don't really speak, you know what I mean, she is my mother, I do love her, and I think I got a better understanding of what she was going through or what she may be going through, you know what I mean? Now when I see myself and how I actually became. I think there's a little compassion factored that goes with that.'

At the time, he said it had been several years since they had last spoken: 'It's probably been a couple years. Maybe three even four years.'