According to her, Eminem's side of the story is full of lies he concocted in order to become a successful rapper.

[4] Nelson's aim in writing the book was to show her side of the story about her relationship with Eminem.

She stated that she "regrets keeping quiet as Em cultivated his public persona of a trailer dweller with a crazy welfare mom.

Club said that her book "is almost perversely devoid of the irony, humor and self-deprecation that pervades her son's music.

"[9] A Publishers Weekly review says that "[t]hough readers may find it hard to reconcile Debbie's claim never to have exploited her son in the pages of a tell-all about him, Nelson's portrait of her son is tense but sympathetic.