Janet Jackson literally saved rapper Eve’s life during a wild night after the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.
The Grammy-winning rapper, actress and former talk show host wrote in her new memoir that the “Rhythm Nation” superstar came to her rescue after someone spiked her drink at a Las Vegas after-party. Her close friend Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott also reportedly offered to help.
“Missy came to see how I was doing, but I couldn’t pull myself together. And then who came in? Janet Jackson,” Eve wrote in “Who’s That Girl” — released last week.
“I had never met her before, and she did it the first time she saw me hysterical,” added the 45-year-old Ruff Ryders songwriter. “None of that mattered to Janet; she sprang into action and told people to take aspirin, water, hot sauce and a piece of white bread. That concoction snapped me out of my hysterics. Basically, Janet Jackson saved my life.”
Eve, whose real name is Eve Jihan Jeffers, previously shared some details of the near-fatal incident on a 2018 episode of “The Talk,” which focused on the dangers of leaving your drink unattended.
“Probably an hour after I last had my drink, I started feeling crazy instead of drunk,” the “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” singer told co-hosts Julie Chen-Moonves, Sharon Osbourne, Sara Gilbert and Sheryl Underwood. “I knew immediately that something was different. And it was weird because I was there but I wasn’t there… I started crying hysterically.”
