You wouldn’t have imagined Eminem and Elton John hanging out, but Sir Elton has told the British Press Association that he’s been helping out Eminem battle a drug problem over the last 18 months and proudly says “he’s doing brilliantly.”

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 in the U.K. on Saturday, the 72-year-old John, who has been open about his own past issues with substance abuse, said: “I’m there if people want my help. If people ask for help you tell them where to go but there’s no point advising people if they don’t want to do it.”

Eminem admitted last May that he’d suffered from a serious drug addiction, which had led him to take as many as 20 Vicodin, Ambien and Valium a day. He opened up to Vibe magazine, saying “The numbers got so high, I don’t even know what I was taking.”

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