Demi Lovato

American Demi Lovato opens up about her drug overdose in her docuseries, ‘Dancing with the Devil’. Image via Instagram @ddlovato

Demi Lovato recalls drug ‘shopping spree’ before overdose in docuseries [watch]

From Disney sweetheart to drug overdose: Demi Lovato opens up about her drug overdose that left her fighting for her life back in 2018 in ‘Dancing with the Devil’.

Demi Lovato

American Demi Lovato opens up about her drug overdose in her docuseries, ‘Dancing with the Devil’. Image via Instagram @ddlovato

Demi Lovato might have started her career alongside Barney in Barney & Friends before achieving global success as the star of 2008’s Disney musical Camp Rock, but the American singer’s life spiralled out of control when she started taking drugs.

In the first two episodes of her YouTube documentary series, Losing Control: Dancing with the Devil, which aired on Tuesday 23 March, Lovato spoke about how she “went to town”, mixing meth with ecstacy, cocaine, weed, alcohol and oxycontin before her 2018 drug overdose.

DEMI LOVATO ON ‘LOSING CONTROL’

The first episode of the four-part documentary series takes viewers on the journey of how the Disney sweetheart turned to drugs.

Lovato, her family and friends open up for the first time about what led up to her near-death experience. The episode has already been viewed more than 4.8 million times.

The Cool for the Summer singer aims to set the record straight on the reasons why she actually started taking drugs. These include the death of her alcoholic father, whom she had cut off because he abusive to her mother. She also cites her struggle with her weight. 

‘SHOPPING SPREE’ FOR DRUGS 

In Losing Control: Dancing with the Devil, Lovato describes her drug use before her overdose as a “shopping spree”.

“I just so happened to run into my old drug dealer from six years before and like the odds of that happening was crazy and he had like a duffel bag and I just went to town. I just went on a shopping spree.

“That night I did drugs that I’d never done before. I’d never done meth before, I tried meth, I mixed it with molly [ecstacy], with coke, weed, alcohol, oxycontin and that alone should have killed me,” she added. 

WATCH EPISODE ONE 

‘MINUTES AWAY FROM DEATH’

In Episode Two, Lovato and her friends provide a first-hand perspective of the aftermath of the overdose as she woke up in the hospital, being minutes away from death.

The Camp Rock star also opened up about being taken advantage of sexually by her dealer.

“When they found me, I was naked, I was blue. I was literally left for dead after he took advantage of me,” said Lovato.

“And when I woke up in the hospital, they asked if I had had consensual sex and there was one flash that I had of him on top of me. I saw that flash and I said yes,” said Lovato.

She later realised that she was in no state of mind to have given her consent. 

WATCH EPISODE TWO

The third episode will air on 30 March on Lovato’s YouTube channel. The synopsis of the episode reveals that it is based on the road to recovery.

“Demi goes to rehab and begins her road to recovery, but with bumps along the way. As she returns to the stage for the first time since her overdose, she needs to find balance in her life,” is written in the episodes description.

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