“I was allowing the cameras to see the tip of the iceberg,” she says.
“I wasn’t showing them what I was doing behind closed doors.”
Now she’s busting them wide open for all to see.
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Here’s a quick rundown on the shocking revelations she shares.
I mixed it with molly, with coke, weed, alcohol, oxycodone.
And that alone should have killed me…
Demi Lovato.
It was only two weeks before I was introduced to heroin and crack cocaine."
“She didn’t even notice I was there,” Mitchell says.
“I stayed there and just made sure she didn’t kill herself the next day.
That moment inspired her to write “Sober.”
When she got home, she “picked up where [she] had left off.”
She just laughed and walked off stage with a shrug.
“I actually don’t think people realize how bad it actually was,” she says.
“I had three strokes.
I had a heart attack.
I suffered brain damage from the strokes.
I can’t drive anymore.
My doctors said that, like, I had five to 10 more minutes.
And had my assistant not come in, I wouldn’t be here today.”
“The reality was I had called my dealer over,” Lovato says.
“I lost all my teaching jobs,” she says.
“No one wanted to bring their kid to an apparent ‘heroin dealer teacher’…
I had to rethink my whole future.
All because of someone else’s decision.”
That’s why Lovato wanted Vitale to be included in the docuseries, so she could clear her name.
“I just want the truth to be told because you deserve that,” Lovato says to Vitale.
I was literally left for dead after he took advantage of me.”
Lovato remembers waking up in the hospital and being asked if she’d had consensual sex.
Lovato goes on to reveal that she was 15 the first time she was sexually assaulted.
“I lost my virginity in a rape,” she says.
“I called that person back a month later and tried to make it right by being in control.
And all it did was just make me feel worse.”
“We were hooking up but I said, ‘Hey, this is not going any farther.
I’m a virgin and I don’t want to lose it this way,'” she says.
“And that didn’t matter to them.
They did it anyways.
And so I stopped eating and coped in other ways, cutting, throwing up, whatever.”
But the docuseries finds her opening up for the first time in detail about his own struggles with addiction.
“The hardest part of the breakup was mourning the person that I thought he was.”
But there’s a lot of things I have to do for myself first.
I want to allow myself the ability to live my life in the most authentic form possible."
“I had just done a week-long intensive trauma retreat.
The night that I came back from that retreat, I called [the same dealer as before].
I wanted to rewrite his choice of violating me.
I wanted it now to be my choice.
And he also had something that I wanted, which were drugs.
And yeah, I ended up getting high.
I thought, how did I pick up the same drugs that put me in the hospital?
She has since decided to forgo total sobriety and practice “moderation” instead.
“I know I’m done with the stuff that’s going to kill me, right?”
She currently smokes weed and drinks alcohol.
“Do I ever want to touch heroin again?
Do I think I will?
Absolutely not,” she says.
I have full faith that you’re not going to open up TMZ and see another overdose headline.
I have to work every day to see to it I’m in a good place.”
The first two episodes ofDancing With the Devilare now streaming on YouTube.
