Demi Lovato is being candid about her near-fatal 2018 overdose.
In the trailer for her next four-part documentary on YouTube, “Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil”, the singer for “Anyone” revealed that she suffered a heart attack and three strokes after her overdose.
“My doctors said I have five to ten minutes,” she said in the trailer. “… I have had many lives, like my cat. I am in my ninth life.”
The health crisis came after several struggles with sobriety for the 28-year-old pop star, who was found unconscious at her Hollywood Hills home in the summer of 2018, according to TMZ at the time.
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Police told the agency that she was treated with Narcan, an emergency medicine that is often used to revive people in cases of narcotic overdoses.
The multihyphenate opened up even more about her overdose and its long-lasting effects during the YouTube TCA panel on Wednesday and revealed that she also had brain damage.
“I got brain damage and I still deal with the effects of it today,” shared Lovato. “I don’t drive a car because I have blind spots in my vision.”
Lovato said he also had trouble reading because his vision was very blurred. She said it took about two months to “read a book”.
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“I have dealt with many of the repercussions and I feel they are still there to remind me if I ever go into a dark place again,” said Lovato. “I am grateful for those reminders, but I am also … very grateful to be someone who has not had to undergo many renovations.”
She said her rehabilitation came “on the emotional side and on the therapeutic side”.
Demi Lovato had a heart attack and three strokes after her overdose in 2018. She also had brain damage.
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Lovato’s overdose and life thereafter will be narrated in the docuseries starting on March 23. The singer says it was an opportunity for her to put all her cards on the table and open up for the good of others.
“In the past few years, I have heard many stories about my life and what people think has happened,” shared the star. “I wanted to clarify things and reveal everything to my fans and say, ‘Hey, this is who I am and this is where I am today and this is the journey that brought me here, and if it helps you, then I hope you can’ because that was my ultimate goal in publicizing this, to be able to help people who are on the same path as me. “
After completing his work on the documentary, Lovato said he learned that “it is much more than just mental health” and said he turned to religion to help his recovery.
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“At different times, it has been different things,” Lovato said of what helped her recover. “In the beginning, part of that was religion. I grew up as a Christian and, as I grew up as a person, I learned different aspects of different spiritual practices that work very well for me.”
Although she said that spirituality “definitely” helped her on her path “more than religion”, she also turned to music in her time of need.
What Lovato said and inspired him to share his story was a season of guest speaker on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, calling him “a catalyst for my need and desire to express myself and my story to the fullest extent.”
‘Anyone’ singer Demi Lovato will talk about her overdose, recovery and more in the four-part documentary ‘Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil’, which starts on YouTube on March 23. (Photo by Matt Sayles / Invision / AP)
“I knew that a single appearance on a television program would not be enough,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to share my entire story in an interview, whether for a magazine or whatever. That’s why I wanted to make it into a documentary.”
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She added that she no longer feels it is “a burden” to share her personal life with fans, and now she feels that openness is an “opportunity to be able to share my experience with others and let them in and see how they are going to see mine. documentary in ways that will help them in their lives. “
Despite all his difficulties, Lovato said he “would not change anything”.
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“I would not change anything because everything had to happen so that I could learn the lessons I learned”, explained the singer of “Commander in Chief”. “It was a painful journey and I look back and sometimes I feel sad when I think about the pain I had to endure, to overcome what I went through. But I don’t regret anything and I am very proud of the person I am today and I am very proud that people see this in this documentary. “