Demi Lovato arrived so near dying throughout her July 2018 drug overdose that physicians later told her she was saved by a matter of minutes.
At a trailer of her talk using Tracy Smith, the”Skyscraper” songstress confessed,”The doctors told me I had five to ten minutes. Like, if nobody had discovered me, then I wouldn’t be here. And I am thankful that I am sitting here today.”
Lovato was asked about a previous interview she did with the CBS series in 2016 in which she discussed her sobriety and eating disease. “I was probably 24 when we did the meeting,” Lovato said as she looked backwards. “I am in recovery to get a lot of things and that I had been sober for the number of years, but I’m still miserable. For the very first time in my entire life, I had to die to awaken.”
“I feel great,” she said of her life today. “I feel more joy in my life than I’ve ever felt because [I’m not] quieting or decreasing any part of myself”
The former child star’s interview came before her new documentary collection, Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil, debuts on YouTube on Tuesday, March 23.
From the four-part series, Lovato claims that her drug dealer sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious after overdosing on heroin laced with fentanyl, and that when she awakened at the hospital, she was blind and could not even recognize her own sister.
“I didn’t control my entire life at that period of time,” she said. “But, yes, I also needed to grow up and take control. And that’s something I have not done until the past couple of years of my entire life, which is [why] I’m now in control of my finances. I am now responsible for… the food that I eat, how often I work out.”
The singer also discusses in the interview about not being completely drug-free now, admitting that she uses marijuana and beverages alcohol.
“I’d say that, like, I believe that the term that I best identify is California sober,” Lovato said, adding that what she is doing may not be acceptable for everyone. “I am cautious to say that just like I feel the complete abstinent method is not a one-size-fits-all solution for everyone, I don’t think that this journey of moderation is an one-size-fits-all alternative for everyone, also.”
