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  • Demi Lovato opens up about being sexually assaulted as a teen in new documentary

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: American singer-songwriter Demi Lovato’s docuseries sees the former Disney star opened up about her past experience more than ever before – especially a sexual assault by her drug dealer on the night of her overdose.

    According to People Magazine, the 28-year-old star opened up about her past in the four-part series ‘Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil’ — which premiered Tuesday (local time) at the SXSW Film Festival.

    The ‘Heart Attack; songstress said in the film about the July 2018 night during which she has said she almost died, “I didn’t just overdose. I was taken advantage of.”

    A friend of Lovato’s, Sirah Mitchell, explained Lovato had been given heroin “laced with fentanyl” that night.

    “He also ended up getting her really high and leaving her for dead,” Mitchell says about the dealer in the documentary.

    “When they found me, I was naked, blue. I was literally left for dead after he took advantage of me. When I woke up in the hospital, they asked if we had had consensual sex. There was one flash that I had of him on top of me. I saw that flash and I said yes. It wasn’t until a month after the overdose that I realized, ‘You weren’t in any state of mind to make a consensual decision,’” said Lovato.

    As reported by People Magazine, in the series, the ‘Stone Cold’ songstress is emotional as she recounts dealing with the trauma that she faced not only from the night of her overdose but with a previous sexual assault.

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    “When I was a teenager, I was in a very similar situation. I lost my virginity in a rape,” she said in the film.

    While acknowledging that she and her alleged attacker had been “hooking up” at the time, Lovato said she had made clear she hadn’t been “ready” to lose her virginity.

    Lovato said, “I was part of that Disney crowd that publicly said they were waiting until marriage. I didn’t have the romantic first time. That was not it for me — that sucked. Then I had to see this person all the time so I stopped eating and coped in other ways.”

    The songstress then said, ” I’m gonna say it,” and shared what had happened to her. However, her alleged attacker “never got in trouble for it.”

    “They never got taken out of the movie they were in. I always kept it quiet because I’ve always had something to say. I don’t know, I’m tired of opening my mouth,” she said.

    After her two sexual assault experiences, Lovato attempted to “take control” by getting in contact with her abusers to do it “her way.”

    She said about her teenage assault on her, “I called that person back a month later and tried to make it right by being in control. All it did was make me feel worse.”

    “Both times were textbook trauma re-enactments, and I really beat myself up for years which is why I had a really hard time coming to terms with the fact it was a rape when it happened,” she said elsewhere.

    As Per People Magazine, ‘Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil’ premieres on YouTube on March 23.

  • ‘Heart attack, strokes’: Demi Lovato reveals 2018 overdose effects in YouTube documentary

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: American singer-songwriter Demi Lovato revealed that she suffered a heart attack and three strokes after her near-fatal overdose in 2018. According to Fox News, the ‘Anyone’ songstress got candid about her overdose in the trailer for her upcoming four-part documentary on YouTube, ‘Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil’.

    The ‘Confident’ songstress said in the trailer, “My doctors said that I have five to 10 minutes,… I’ve had a lot of lives, like my cat. I’m on my ninth life.” The health crises came after several struggles with sobriety for the now-28-year-old pop star, who was found unconscious in her Hollywood Hills home in the summer of 2018, TMZ reported at the time.

    Law enforcement told the outlet that she was treated with Narcan, an emergency medication that is often used to revive people in instances of narcotic overdoses.

    As reported by Fox News, the songstress opened up further about her overdose and its lasting effects during YouTube’s TCA panel on Wednesday and revealed that she was also left with brain damage. “I was left with brain damage and I still deal with the effects of that today. I don’t drive a car because I have blind spots in my vision,” shared Lovato.

    The singer-songwriter said that she also had a hard time reading because her vision was so blurred. It took about two months, she said, for her to “read out of a book”. “I dealt with a lot of the repercussions and I feel like they kind of are still there to remind me if I ever get into a dark place again. I”m grateful for those reminders, but I’m also … so grateful I was someone that didn’t have to do a lot of rehabbing,” said Lovato.

    She said that her rehabilitation came “in the emotional side and the therapeutic side.” Fox News reported that the overdose and Lovato’s life afterward will be chronicled in the docuseries beginning on March 23. The singer says it was an opportunity for her to lay all of her cards on the table and be open for the sake of others.