The 28-year-old star, Demi Lovato, opens up about her near-fatal overdose in 2018, her struggles with heroin addiction in her documentary, Dancing with the devil, which premieres March 23 on YouTube. – By Sharon Maina.
Demi was originally filming a doc intended to capture her world tour in 2018, but the project was permanently shelved after Demi’s near fatal drug overdose.
In July 2018, the pop star was found unconscious at her home in Los Angeles, just one month after saying she had broken her sobriety. Demi, who battled drug and alcohol addiction, spent almost two weeks in a hospital before undergoing treatment at a rehab facility and then a sober living facility.
Nearly two years later, Demi was once again ready to film, with production on the documentary resuming in spring 2020. And this time, the “Skyscraper” singer was sharing thewhole story, surprising even her friends who sat down for interviews.
“Are we talking about heroin, are we doing that?” her best friend, actor Matthew Scott Montgomery, asks at one point.
“In that documentary, I was allowing the cameras to see the tip of the iceberg. I wasn’t showing them what I was doing behind closed doors. I’ve had so much I’ve wanted to say over the last two years, of wanting to set the record straight about what it was that happened. FYI, I am just going to say it all and if we don’t want to use it we can take it out.” Said Demi Lovato.
Even after her statement it seems like nothing was left out . Demi and her close friends and family revealed her shocking information about her near-death experience, her struggles with sobriety, a heroin addiction and an all-consuming eating disorder.
Demi said that being forced to quarantine at home due to the coronavirus pandemic helped her find balance and truly begin healing from her past traumas, all of which she dives deeply into in the Michael Ratner directed documentary.
“I crossed a line that I had never crossed in the world of addiction, It’s OK Not to Be OK It’s interesting that it took me a quarantine to work on this trauma stuff. I’d never really taken the time to dig deep and do the work.” Demi Lovato courageously said.
Well for many of us take this pandemic as a negative thing but truly every bad thing has a good side. This pandemic has helped people such a Demi to face their challenges and heal from them.
This is such a powerful message to everyone out there who is battling drug addiction and all. It’s okay not to be okay and if Demi was able to battle it out so can you.
