Demi Lovato has revealed some shocking details about her 2018 near-fatal overdose, saying for the first time that she suffered three strokes and a heart attack.
The 28-year-old Commander-in-Chief singer made her comments in an upcoming four-part documentary about her life, titled Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil; which will premiere on YouTube on March 23. Lovato released a trailer on Wednesday which contains an excerpt of her new song by the same name.
In July 2018, the pop star was found unconscious at her home in Los Angeles after an overdose. This was months after she relapsed. Lovato, who battled drug and alcohol addiction in years past, spent almost two weeks in a hospital. She then underwent treatment at a rehab facility and sober living facility for months.
“I had three strokes,” Lovato said in the documentary’s trailer. “I had a heart attack. My doctors said that I had five to 10 more minutes.”
The former Disney kid also added, “I crossed a line that I had never crossed”. Her friend, actor Matthew Scott Montgomery, then says in th8e trailer, “Are we talking about heroin? Are we doing that?”
The Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil trailer also shows Lovato lying on a hospital bed while hooked up to an IV. Her mother, Dianna De La Garza, said, “We’re watching all of her blood come out of her body into a machine”. Montgomery said the singer said she “can’t see anything.”
“I’ve had so much to say over the past two years wanting to set the record straight about what it was that happened,” Lovato said in the trailer. She later added, “I’ve had a lot of lives. Like my cat, you know? I’m on my ninth life.”
