The Demi Lovato docuseries „Dancing With the Devil“ is an unprecedented and unfiltered look into the former Disney star’s life.
Demi Lovato’s documentary “Dancing With the Devil” released its first episode on YouTube on Tuesday, and the series is an unprecedented and unfiltered look into the former Disney star’s life, relationship with her family and battles with addiction. In “Dancing With the Devil,” Demi opens up to the cameras with commentary provided by her mother and stepfather, sisters, choreographer, and friends, as well as the neurologist at Cedars-Sinai hospital who treated her brain injuries after her overdose. Throughout the series, these sources start a raw but compassionate dialogue about the parts of Lovato’s life that led her to her breaking point in 2018 — but also celebrate her talent, strength and resilience and her joy at getting a new lease on life. There are plenty of details in the hour-long project to mull over, but here are five of the most shocking revelations from the series (minor spoilers ahead). Also Read: ‚Dancing With the Devil‘: Demi Lovato Found Opening Up About Overdose ‚Wildly Cathartic,‘ Director Says The first two episodes of “Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil” premiere for free Tuesday, March 23 at 3 p.m. ET / noon PT only on Demi Lovato’s YouTube Channel, with new episodes to be released weekly on each of the next two Tuesdays (March 30 and April 6). Inside Demi’s near-fatal overdose in 2018 During “Dancing With the Devil,” Lovato is very candid about what happened when she overdosed on heroin in 2018. Lovato said she was given heroin that, unbeknownst to her, was also laced with the lethal opioid Fentanyl. The effects of the drugs made her overdose and go into a comatose state, which is how her assistant Jordan Jackson found her. Jackson called 911 and Lovato’s security manager, Max Lea, rushed her to the hospital. But when she woke up, the overdose had truly taken its toll. “I don’t think people realize how bad it actually was,” Lovato says in the series. “I had three strokes, I had a heart attack. I suffered brain damage from the strokes. I was legally blind when I woke up.” She went on to add that while at the hospital she suffered pneumonia because she asphyxiated as well as had multiple organ failure. “I’m really lucky to be alive. The doctors said if there’d been five to 10 more minutes and if my assistant hadn’t come in, I wouldn’t be alive today,” Lovato said. Jackson told the documentary crew that when she found Lovato unconscious in her home, “there was one point where she turned blue, her whole body turned blue.
