--- title: Eminem Made Wish Come True for Fan with Cancer Before He Died description: A fan with an aggressive form of bone cancer wanted to meet the rapper before he died canonical: https://time.com/3665726/eminem-makes-wish-come-true-for-fan-with-cancer/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-13T18:12:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:55.285Z og:title: Eminem Makes a Wish Come True for a Terminally Ill Fan og:description: The rapper visited the teen one day before the cancer patient passed away og:url: https://time.com/3665726/eminem-makes-wish-come-true-for-fan-with-cancer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Eminem Makes a Wish Come True for a Terminally Ill Fan twitter:description: The rapper visited the teen one day before the cancer patient passed away twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Eminem Makes Wish Come True for Terminally-Ill Fan by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 13, 2015 6:12 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 13, 2015 6:12 PM UTC Gage Garmo had one wish before he died: Meet Eminem. The teenager was battling a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer, and his friends wanted to help make his life-long dream come true. They set out on a social media campaign to bring the rapper to the Detroit suburb of Rochester, MI., to meet Garmo. Their efforts got a boost when the Michigan-based charity The Rainbow Connection, which grants wishes to children facing terminal illnesses, head about Garmo’s case, and managed to set up a meeting with the _8 Mile_ rapper within just 48 hours. After hearing that Garmo only had a week to live, Eminem flew to Michigan on Sunday to spend time with his young fan. The [_Detroit Free Press_](http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2015/01/12/eminem-meets-terminally-fan/21659085/) reported that the two talked about hip-hop and football in Garmo’s living room. According to the Free Press, Garmo “sat up with a grin on his face” upon seeing the rapper and a Rainbow Connection staffer noted that Garmo’s “family hadn’t seen their son do that in such a long time.” Garmo died Monday night. He would have turned 18 on Friday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3665726/eminem-makes-wish-come-true-for-fan-with-cancer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3665726/eminem-makes-wish-come-true-for-fan-with-cancer/"},"headline":"Eminem Makes Wish Come True for Terminally-Ill Fan","datePublished":"2015-01-13T18:12:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:55.285Z","description":"The day before the teen passed away","url":"https://time.com/3665726/eminem-makes-wish-come-true-for-fan-with-cancer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Children","viral","Cancer","Eminem"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3665726/eminem-makes-wish-come-true-for-fan-with-cancer/","name":"Eminem Makes Wish Come True for Terminally-Ill Fan"}}]}] ```