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Demi Lovato is taking a different approach to her journey with addiction and sobriety, and her friends are worried. Following her serious overdose in 2018, the 28-year-old singer reveals in her new YouTube docuseries,
Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil, that she s not entirely sober. The series premiered at SXSW on Tuesday night ahead of its March 23 premiere on YouTube. I ve learned that it doesn t work for me to say that I m never going to do this again, Lovato admits, saying she s really struggled with the decision to come forward with the truth that she s not sober today.
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Demi Lovato is revealing some shocking details about her past in her new YouTube Originals docuseries,
Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil. The series premiered at SXSW on Tuesday night ahead of its March 23 premiere on YouTube.
In the third episode of the Michael D. Ratner-directed series, Lovato reveals why she never came forward about allegedly being sexually assaulted by the man who she referred to as her drug dealer who she claims got her high the night of her 2018 overdose. She says she was afraid of not being believed, a feeling she had experienced in the past after losing her virginity in a traumatic way.
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It s a no-holds-barred look at Demi Lovato s tumultuous past few years. In the new YouTube Originals docuseries
Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil, the 28-year-old singer shares the shocking details of her 2018 relapse, subsequent overdose, alleged sexual assault, and more. The series premiered at SXSW on Tuesday night ahead of its March 23 premiere on YouTube.
No topic is off-limits as she opens up about the months leading up to her overdose and the disturbing health repercussions she s faced since.
As Demi Lovato opens up about battling her demons in her new YouTube Originals docuseries,
Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil, the 28-year-old singer also touches on her failed engagement to actor Max Ehrich. The series premiered at SXSW on Tuesday night ahead of its March 23 premiere on YouTube.
The exes had a whirlwind romance amid quarantine, and in the new series, it s revealed that Ehrich even moved in with Lovato and her family amid the coronavirus pandemic. They got engaged in July 2020 and two months later, Lovato called things off.
In the docuseries, Lovato shares candid videos of her reaction to the split and Ehrich s public responses in the days following.
Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil
In 2018, pop star Demi Lovato lived through one of the scariest things a person can survive from: an overdose. Her latest documentary series,
Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil is meant to serve as window into her psyche, and open a frank discussion about her addiction.
For part of it, the documentary (which had its world premiere as the opening night title for SXSW 2021) succeeds. Lovato dives into her late father’s overdose, the pressures of growing up in the Disney limelight, and her mental health struggles leading up to her own overdose. Jordan Jackson, Lovato’s assistant at the time, unravels the horrible day, and her recollection is depicted by a simplistic animated sequence. There’s no delicacy when it comes to the reality of an overdose: Lovato lists she had three strokes and a heart attack, had to fight pneumonia, and suffers from blind spots, multiple organ failure and brain damage. Her pain is valid and real, but as honest as