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This past week, Timehop apps across the world have been cheerfully notifying users that yes, it has been an entire year since they naively tweeted that they were about to spend “two weeks, maybe even a month” barricaded inside their apartments. (And they’re the lucky ones.) But when you’re a writer for
The A.V. Club, you mark time in Kinja posts, not Facebook memories. That means that I’m pulling out a half-deflated balloon and a frostbitten slice of ice-cream cake for myself while writing this dispatch, because SXSW 2020 was the first major cultural event of last year that we covered virtually, and here we are doing it all over again.
Demi Lovato Opens Up About Being Sexually Assaulted as a Teen in New Documentary
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Demi Lovato’s new documentary, “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil,” sees the pop singer and former Disney star opening up about her past more than ever before.
In the four-part series which opened tonight at SXSW and will premiere on YouTube March 23 Lovato discusses her struggle with addiction and life-threatening overdose in 2018 “with a bluntness that feels outright shocking,” as
Variety‘s Daniel D’Addario writes in his review. However, Lovato also details an alleged sexual assault she experienced when she was 15 – something that she has never publicly discussed.
Demi Lovato Opens Up About Being Sexually Assaulted: Didn t Just Overdose, I Was Taken Advantage Of
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Published: Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 14:51 [IST]
Demi
Lovato s
new
docuseries
will
see
the
singer-songwriter
open
up
about
her
experience
as
a
former
Disney
star
and
drug
abuse.
However,
People
Magazine
recently
reported
that
Demi
in
the
docuseries
will
also
talk
about
being
sexually
assaulted
by
her
drug
dealer
on
the
night
of
her
overdose.
Earlier
this
week,
Demi
Lovato:
Dancing
with
the
Devil,
premiered
at
the
SXSW
Film
Festival.
Demi
in
the
film
recalled
the
night
of
overdose
in
July
2018.
She
shared
that
she
almost
Audra Schroeder is the Daily Dot’s senior entertainment writer, and she focuses on streaming, comedy, and music. Her work has previously appeared in the Austin Chronicle, the Dallas Observer, NPR, ESPN, Bitch, and the Village Voice. She is based in Austin, Texas.