In 2019, Australian Alex Beulke met Eminem before his concert in Melbourne. Now Make-a-Wish foundation that made it happen shares her story about this unforgettable evening.
Alex and her mum arrived at this meet-and-greet in a limo and were taken directly backstage to meet Marshall. According to the foundation webpage, Alex did not expected the meeting to go as it went:
He was a little bit shy, but I got to spend half an hour with him; I just expected five minutes. He gave us a massive gift bag that had everything you could buy at the merchandise stand. Then he signed whatever we wanted him to sign and let us take photos.
The webpage published a video from a fundraising event where Alex spoke about the conversation she had with Em:
The first question I asked him was what his favourite song was of all his music, and he said either “Lose Yourself” or “Mockingbird” because that’s something for his daughters. I also asked him who his favourite artist was to collaborate with, and he said Royce [da 5’9] or Dr. Dre. But he also asked me some questions. He was really interested in my music, and he was really impressed because he thought I might only like rap music, but I have a very broad range. And I got to a Phil Collins concert earlier that month, so he was really impressed with the broad range. He asked me how many people the [Melbourne Cricket Ground] holds, and I said a hundred thousand but that you expect about 80,000 people to come, and he was just blown away by that. Even on stage that night, he said, “This is the most amount of people I’ve ever seen in one area”.
The meeting was not just something to fulfil her dream. The memory of it stayed with Alex and helped her down the road, she says on her page on the foundation webpage:
Even to this day, thinking about it makes me smile. I can go back to that memory and think about it and automatically be happy again because it was a phenomenal experience and something I’ll never forget for the rest of my life.
Alex has survived cancer twice since, and while she still has to battle the serious impact it left on her health, she is now a Make-A-Wish volunteer, and she shared her story to bring more attention to what the foundation does to help children in their darkest times.
Watch the video below:
