Alex Beulke talks about her experience of meeting Eminem in 2019 through Make-A-Wish.
As part of his Rapture Tour, Eminem visited Australia in February 2019. In partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, he met several ailing youngsters there. Alex Beulke, 18, battled Ewing’s sarcoma and told the story of his memorable encounter with the American rap legend. Back in 2019 during his tour in Australia, Eminem took some time to fulfill some lucky fans’ dreams through the Make-A-Wish foundation. Alex Beulke, who was suffering from cancer “Ewing’s Sarcoma”, gets to meet Eminem after her first diagnosis. Make-A-Wish Foundation organized a meet and greet session backstage of Eminem’s Melbourne Concert where Alex and Rachelle arrive in a limousine.
Make-A-Wish now shared the Alex story where she described her “surreal” meeting with the rap legend. “He was a little bit shy, but I got to spend half an hour with him; I just expected five minutes,” she said. “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.”
She continued, “The first question I asked him was what his favorite 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 favorite artist was to collaborate with, and he said, Royce 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’.”
“Even to this day, thinking about it makes me smile,” Alex told. “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.”
Check out her video below and full story on makeawish.org.au.
