Eminem Admits Puppet Dog Caused Violent Rage At MTV Awards

Eminem has admitted that he overreacted at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards after he was mocked by a dog puppet.

Reports at the time claimed the rapper had trashed his dressing room after Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a regular on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, joked about his feud with dance producer Moby.

In his memoirs, The Way I Am, serialised in part by Entertainment Weekly, Eminem says he had been so busy touring that he was unaware of who the dog was.

"My natural reaction was 'Get the **** out of my face',” he writes. “And that's when I kind of lost it and a half. I should have kept my composure."

"I threw a fit. There was a cooler with drinks in it, and I asked if anybody wanted to grab a water or something. Nobody did.

"So I picked up the cooler and threw it against the wall and kind of ****ed up the whole room.

"What I actually got mad about was the most ridiculous thing in the world. A puppet."

As previously reported on Gigwise, Eminem confirmed last week that he will release his new studio album, 'Relapse', before the end of 2008.