Eminem's ex-wife arrested in US

The ex-wife of rapper Eminem, wanted by authorities after quitting a court-ordered drug treatment programme, has been arrested at a Michigan hotel.

Police arrested Kimberly Mathers in an Ann Arbor hotel room on Tuesday after receiving a phone call saying she was staying there, Sgt Brad Hill said yesterday.

She was turned over to the Macomb County Sheriff’s Department.

A Macomb County judge issued a warrant for Mathers’s arrest in April. She has twice dropped out of a drug treatment programme, and served a jail term earlier this year after dropping out the first time.

In January Mathers had been sentenced to two years’ probation after admitting possessing 25 grams or less of cocaine and failing to give adequate space to an emergency vehicle.

Mathers and Eminem, whose legal name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, have a daughter, Hailie Jade Mathers.