Demi Lovato
That was really how bad the night of her overdose was
Demi Lovato speaks openly about the night of her overdose.
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Demi Lovato tells in her new documentary about the night of her overdose in 2018. Accordingly, her drug dealer had offended her.
Demi Lovato (28, "Heart Attack") speaks in the new documentary "Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil" about the night in July 2018 when she almost died of an overdose. Accordingly, she was raped by her drug dealer that same night. "I didn't just have an overdose. I was taken advantage of," says the musician in her film. A friend named Sirah Mitchell explains, according to People, that Lovato was given heroin diluted with fentanyl for this. "He got her really high and then left her to die."
Lovato was naked when she was finally found unconscious. "I was literally left to die after he used me." At the hospital, she was asked if the sex was consensual. "I had a scrap of memory lying on top of me. I saw this memory and I said yes." It wasn't until a month after the overdose that she realized that in her condition she had not been able to make an amicable decision.
Not her first experience of abuse
As she says in the documentary, it wasn't her first experience of abuse. "When I was a teenager, I was in a very similar situation. I lost my virginity in a rape." Accordingly, as a 15-year-old, she had made it clear to her boyfriend and Disney colleague at the time that she was not ready yet.
In the Disney cosmos she had to run into him constantly afterwards, as a coping strategy she developed an eating disorder. Lovato had also reached out to adults about the incident, but he "got no trouble about it." Eventually she tried to take back control herself by calling the person. "But all that did was make me feel worse." The first episode of the YouTube documentary "Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil" will be released on March 23rd.