Taking to his Instagram handle on Monday, the 53-year-old rapper shared a snap of himself holding a sobriety chip from Alcoholics Anonymous with the caption “XVII. 

As the image went viral, Eminem’s fans flooded the comments section to show their love for the Lose Yourself hitmaker.

“Inspiring… Congratulations on this milestone… So happy for you and the man you are,” penned an Instagram user.

“Fantastic work. We are so glad you’re still here,” added another one.

“so happy for you and the man you are,” commented a third one.

In 2015, in an interview with Men’s Journal, Eminem opened up about his drug addiction.

“In 2007, I overdosed on pills, and I went into the hospital,” the Grammy rapper told the outlet. “I was close to 230 pounds. I’m not sure how I got so big, but I have ideas.”

He further said, “The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I’d been taking for years leaves a hole in your stomach, so to avoid a stomachache, I was constantly eating — and eating badly.”

“When I got out of rehab, I needed to lose weight, but I also needed to figure out a way to function sober,” continued the rapper.

“Unless I was blitzed out of my mind, I had trouble sleeping. So I started running. It gave me a natural endorphin high, but it also helped me sleep, so it was perfect,” added Eminem. It’s easy to understand how people replace addiction with exercise. One addiction for another but one that’s good for them.’

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and first lady Rama Duwaji have been invited to the Met Gala — but won’t be attending, sources tell Page Six.

New York City’s mayor is traditionally invited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the lavish event every year, but we’re told that Mamdani, 34, won’t be joining Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour and her coterie of celeb guests on Monday, May 4.

“He’s not coming,” said a source. “And it would be foolish if he did … can you imagine? It goes against everything he believes in.”

Indeed, the event is being financially subsidized by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos — currently the world’s third richest man — and his wife, Lauren Sánchez-Bezos, who have been named as lead donors and honorary co-chairs of the gala, which raises money for the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Met.

Mamdani has said,  “I don’t think that we should have billionaires.”

Despite this, a well-placed New York socialite told Page Six, “It’s such a New York institution. I think he should go. It’s a very New York moment.”

And NYC mayors have often attended the annual ball. Eric Adams turned up in 2022, his first year in office, with partner Tracey Collins, wearing a custom jacket by Laolu Senbanjo featuring NYC motifs and a “End Gun Violence” message.

Bill de Blasio attended in 2021, his final year in Gracie Mansion, wearing a tuxedo by Brooklyn designer Dreu Beckemberg to celebrate the post-pandemic return of the city’s fashion industry.

Mike Bloomberg was frequently a guest during his long tenure as mayor, from 2002 until 2013, and still goes to the ball every year with his daughter Georgina and his partner, Diana Taylor.

We have reached out to reps for Mamdani, the Met and Vogue.

Mamdani’s snub comes as Wintour recently praised his 28-year-old wife.

During an interview with Meryl Streep in Vogue, released last week, Wintour said: “I’m full of admiration for New York City’s new first lady because she looks so cool and wears a lot of vintage — young and modern and also entirely herself.”

Wintour seemingly ignored the fact that Duwaji, an illustrator, liked a social-media post that called the atrocity of Oct. 7 a “mass rape hoax” that was “fabricated” by the New York Times.

Old posts show Duwaji railed against US soldiers, praised a Palestinian, mourned the death of a Hamas propagandist — and dropped an N-bomb and a gay slur for good measure.

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez infamously flouted House ethics rules by accepting more than $3,700 in rented apparel and other gifts for her notorious appearance at the 2021 Met Gala — including a glitzy gown emblazoned with “Tax The Rich” in blood-red letters and a free ticket for her then-boyfriend Riley Roberts.

The House Ethics Committee faulted the congresswoman for not complying with its regulation on gifts, but said it wouldn’t sanction AOC further.

Meanwhile, although we’re told that Meryl Streep — who plays a character based on Wintour in the upcoming “The Devil Wears Prada 2” movie — will not be attending, her co-star Anne Hathaway will be there.

Page Six has already reported that “Weapons” star Julia Garner will be walking the red carpet, along with Alexa Chung, Gabrielle Union, Rebecca Hall, and the NBA’s Jimmy Butler.

This year’s theme is “Costume Art,” with a dress code of “Fashion is Art.”

The host committee includes Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour.

YSL designer Anthony Vaccarello and his muse Zoë Kravitz are also co-chairing the Gala Host Committee, which includes Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, LISA, new Vogue editor Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson and Yseult. 

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Robert De Niro is a name that even any casual movie fan knows. The actor has had a super successful career so far, with a few of his standout films including “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” “Cape Fear,” and many more. Even with an undeniable legacy of acting work, though, a star’s personality and personal life can completely mess things up if it ends up disappointing or angering fans.

In De Niro’s case, while the actor has built up a pretty impressive reputation after years in the spotlight, it’s arguably taken a dive since the 2010s. The memorable actor’s personal life has divided his once sizable audience and left some fans questioning whether to continue their support. So what exactly caused his reputation to tank so much? From relationship advice to business practices, there are a few major things that contributed to De Niro’s fall from grace. 

De Niro’s age-gap relationship drew criticism from fans

In the early 2020s, Robert De Niro became romantically involved with martial arts instructor Tiffany Chen. They met years earlier when Chen played a Tai Chi instructor in De Niro’s 2015 comedy film, “The Intern,” but it’s unclear exactly what led to the shift into romance. 

While the couple has seemed very happy, some people took issue with the relationship’s major age gap. De Niro is around 35 to 36 years older than his partner. When they first started dating, he was about 78 years old compared to Chen’s 42. At the 2024 Oscars, host Jimmy Kimmel took a jab at De Niro’s relationship with Chen. He joked about how Jodie Foster was “young enough” to play De Niro’s daughter when she acted opposite him in “Taxi Driver” at the age of 12; in 2024, though, when Foster was in her early 60s, Kimmel said, “Now, she’s 20 years too old to be his girlfriend.” Foster, De Niro, and Chen all seemed to take the joke well, but it highlighted how much of a commonplace topic the age gap was.

For many fans, the age gap only really became an issue when De Niro welcomed his daughter Gia in early 2023, when De Niro was 79. Some fans on Reddit called the move “irresponsible” and “egotistical,” while another claimed, “Kid will probably grow up only remembering his father’s face from movies.”

De Niro shared a controversial take on parenting that people really didn’t like

Soon after Robert De Niro and Tiffany Chen’s daughter, Gia, was born, the actor opened up about raising a baby again so many years after his last child was born. Unfortunately, in early 2025, De Niro admitted something about his parenting style in an interview that really rubbed fans the wrong way. 

De Niro sat down with The Guardian for a conversation about a variety of topics, including how he has parented his new daughter — or hasn’t. He said of raising a child, “It doesn’t get easier … I mean, I don’t do the heavy lifting. I’m there, I support my girlfriend. But she does the work. And we have help, which is so important.”

As you might expect, fans were a little disappointed to hear De Niro openly admit that he doesn’t help that much with parenting compared to the woman in the relationship. People debated the situation on social media, with one person on Reddit joking, “Boy math is having endless kids and doing zero parenting.” Another called the situation “embarrassing.” Then again, a few fans appreciated De Niro’s upfront take, like someone who commented, “The honesty is cracking me up. I think it’s reasonable to guess his girlfriend knew what she was getting into in this situation.” 

De Niro has seven children, including Gia, and they have a massive age gap between them. The oldest is a daughter named Drena, who was born in 1967, more than 55 years before Gia was born. His second-youngest child is his daughter Helen, who turned 14 in December 2025. He also has a few grandchildren.

The actor’s production company was found liable for gender discrimination

Throughout his long career, Robert De Niro has mostly been able to stay out of any legal trouble. However, in 2019, a former employee of his production company, Canal Productions, named Graham Chase Robinsony, sued him and the company, alleging gender discrimination and retaliation. This came not long after De Niro and his company first sued her with accusations of inappropriate spending and stealing airline miles, among other things.

Robinson’s case went to trial in 2023, and De Niro testified. In the end, De Niro was not found personally liable, but his production company was. Canal Productions was ordered to pay Robinson $1.26 million. Robinson was also cleared of all accusations from De Niro’s lawsuit against her.

In her lawsuit, Robinson alleged that De Niro treated her, his executive assistant at the time, as his “office wife,” making her do stereotypically female-aligned tasks. Her lawyer claimed that this wouldn’t have happened if she were a man, according to Courthouse News Service. There were other related allegations as well, including a claim of wage difference from another employee because of her gender. These and other allegations from Robinson in the court case left a bad taste in fans’ mouths.

De Niro’s outspoken and intense political beliefs have divided fans and drawn backlash

Robert De Niro continued to act quite a bit despite his advancing age, even in his 80s, but he’s also dedicated plenty of time to speaking out about his political beliefs and criticizing Donald Trump. For some fans, this might be a green flag; to others, it made them lose respect for De Niro.

De Niro was very outspoken after Trump became the 45th president of the United States, but the actor got even louder when he became president again. During a February 2026 appearance on the podcast “The Best People With Nicole Wallace,” the Oscar winner declared, “The story is our country, and Trump is destroying it, and who knows what his reasons are, but it’s sick … We have to save the country.” He then called Trump the “enemy of this country.”

Many fans of De Niro support his views, but there has also been some backlash to his intense statements. In 2024, De Niro’s anti-Trump comments led the National Association of Broadcasters to rescind the Leadership Foundation’s Service to America Award, which it planned to give the actor. As for regular fans, one person claimed on Reddit that “his latest rants and antics just make him look like a complete fool” and said De Niro’s actions “shattered his legacy.” That’s hardly a great thing to hear for any actor. Other opinions have been split, with one person echoing many others when they wrote on Reddit, “I don’t understand why anyone cares what celebrities think,” while another pointed out that Trump is a celebrity himself.

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