Demi Lovato reveals why she didn’t think she would overdose after trying meth, crack cocaine

The first half of Demi Lovato’s new docu-series, ‘Dancing With the Devil’, hit YouTube, in which the singer candidly explains why she didn’t think she’d overdosed in 2018, despite mixing drugs.

The four-part series, which chronicles Lovato’s journey to and after her near-fatal overdose in 2018, was long awaited and features on the singer’s first album since 2017, “Dancing With the Devil … The Art of Starting Over” . which is scheduled for release on April 2.

Over the course of the two 20-minute episodes, Lovato explained how she ‘crossed a line I had never crossed in the world of addiction’ and that she ‘just went to town’ when she initially relapsed after being sober for years been.

‘I took drugs that I had never done before. I had never done meth before, I tried meth. I mixed it with molly, with coke, weed, alcohol, OxyContin. That alone should have killed me, ”she said in the first episode.

The 28-year-old said she started using heroin and crack cocaine recreationally after trying them when a dealer didn’t have her usual preferred combination of cocaine and Xanax. Her addiction to both drugs got so bad, she said, that after her Tell Me You Love Me tour she was a heavy user of both and she even once interrupted a game night to quietly take the drugs in a friend’s bathroom. .

On the night of her overdose in July 2018, Lovato had hung out with friends and told them she would go to bed when they left. In reality, she had called her dealer and now said she was getting what she assumes to be ‘fentanyl’, ‘aftermarket pills.

After the overdose, Lovato said, she woke up in the hospital “ shocked ” because she had thought that you could only overdose if you injected the drugs.

“I’m not saying I didn’t use needles, but I didn’t inject it that night, I smoked it. That’s another reason I was so shocked when I woke up in the hospital because I thought, ‘No, I’m not injecting it. I can’t overdose on it, ” she said in front of the camera at one point, later adding that she learned, ‘At the end of the day, if you do too much of anything it’s going to kill you.’

Lovato said she knew she needed help at the time.

In the second episode, the “Anyone” singer tells a little about being “abused” by the dealer who gave her the drugs that she eventually overdosed just before she overdosed.

‘I didn’t just overdose. I was also taken advantage of … When they found me, I was naked, I was blue. I was literally left for dead after he took advantage of me. And when I woke up in the hospital, they asked if I had consensual sex. There was a flash of him on me. I saw that flash and I said, “Yes.” Actually, it wasn’t until a month after the overdose that I realized, “Hey, you weren’t in a state of mind to make a consensual decision.” Trauma like that doesn’t go away overnight, “she shared, adding,” A lot of my past trauma came to a head that night. “

The next two episodes of the docu series will be released in the next two weeks.