'3 strokes, heart attack, brain damage': Popular actress-singer reveals 2018 drug overdose effects
Demi Lovato was admitted to the hospital in 2018 after she was found unconscious at her plush Los Angeles home.
Singer-actress Demi Lovato finally opened up about her 2018 drug overdose, revealing she saw death from close quarters during the overdose episode. It may be recalled that Lovato was admitted to the hospital in 2018 after she was found unconscious at her plush Los Angeles home.
"I had three strokes. I had a heart attack. My doctors said that I had five to 10 more minutes," Lovato said.
Talking to AP, Demi Lovato said the drug overdose had left her with "brain damage". "I still deal with the effects of that today," she added.
"I don't drive a car, because I have blind spots on my vision. And I also for a long time had a really hard time reading. It was a big deal when I was able to read out of a book, which was like two months later because my vision was so blurry," Lovato said.
"I dealt with a lot of the repercussions and I feel like they are still there to remind me of what could happen if I ever get into a dark place again. I'm grateful for those reminders, but I'm so grateful that I was someone that didn't have to do a lot of rehabbing. The rehabbing came on the emotional side," Lovato said.
Demi Lovato noted that she would not like to change anything about the aftermath of the overdose. "Everything had to happen in order for me to learn the lessons that I learned," she told PEOPLE. "It was a painful journey, and I look back and sometimes I get sad when I think of the pain that I had to endure to overcome what I have, but I don't regret anything."