Demi Lovato says she had three strokes and a heart attack after a drug overdose in 2018.
“My doctors said I had five to ten minutes more,” said Lovato, 28, in the trailer for the documentary “Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil”, which is due to open in March.
The YouTube Originals documentary is heralded as an exploration of every aspect that led to the overdose and its consequences.
The trailer shows Lovato’s video as a child actor in “Barney & Friends” and other roles in a series of quick shots that briefly freeze in a black and white image of a hand on a hospital bed with an IV.
In a video call on Wednesday, Lovato also said he had brain damage and was still dealing with the effects.
“I don’t drive a car because I have blind spots in my vision. For a long time, I had a hard time reading. It was very important when I was able to read a book, which happened two months later, because my vision was very blurred, “Lovato said in the video call, according to the Associated Press and other media.
In the trailer, Lovato says, “I’ve had a lot to say in the past two years, wanting to make it clear what happened.”
Lovato, then 25, was rushed to a hospital in July 2018 after an overdose at her Hollywood Hills home.
In January 2020, she talked about writing a song days before the incident – “Anyone” – which she said was a “cry for help”.
She sang this song at the Grammy in what was called a comeback and a comeback to the music industry. Lovato also sang the national anthem at that Super Bowl LIV the following month. She was among the artists who performed in a special to mark the inauguration of President Joe Biden earlier this year.
Lovato was open about her battles with addiction and, in March 2018, months before the overdose, she tweeted that she had celebrated six years of sobriety.
“My goal in publicizing this is to help people who are on the same path as me,” she said on Wednesday about the new series.
The Associated Press contributed.