Demi Lovato, the shocking revelation: “After the overdose I had three strokes and one heart attack”

The drug overdose of July 24, 2018 provoked a Demi Lovato «three strokes and one heart attackLeaving her with physical limitations whose effects have not faded to this day. The 28-year-old American singer and actress publicly reveals for the first time the details about the incident that was about to kill her in Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil, a four-part docuseries that will debut on March 23 on YouTube Originals. In the trailer, the former Disney starlet says that the doctors told his family: “He has between 5 and 10 minutes to live».

Demi still pays the consequences of that overdose: “I have a brain injury left, and I still face its effects today, “he told the Ap agency. “I don’t drive the car because I have blind spots in my sight. For a long time I really had a hard time reading, it was all out of focus ». The pop star is convinced that the repercussions of the overdose are “still there for remind me what could happen if I ever fall back into darkness».

Demi Lovato, ended up in rehab for the first time at 18, has never made a secret of his battles against alcohol and drug addiction. On March 16, 2018 he celebrated six years of “cleaning” but then in June he released a new song, Sober, in which he admitted a relapse into alcoholism: “I’m sorry to be here again / I promise I’ll ask for help / It wasn’t my intention / I’m sorry for myself”. July 24 she was admitted unconscious to the hospital for an overdose of cocaine.

Doctors rescued her, and after three months in a rehab in California, the singer began a new life. At first it seemed that it was also due to the love affair with the designer Henri Alexander Levy, which began in November 2018.

In March 2019, however, Demi he left Henri – who has similar problems to his own – precisely to “not go back down the wrong path” (the two had met, years ago, in a detox clinic). Then in the life of the former Disney starlet came the actor Max Ehrich: the two said goodbye last October, just three months after the announcement of the wedding.

Demi in the love life has not yet found stability. However, it seems to succeed in the greater undertaking: to keep its demons at bay. So much so that he was able to relaunch his career. Last year we reviewed it ai Grammy Awards (see gallery above), then ha sang the national anthem at Super Bowl 2020 and last month she starred in one television special for the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

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