Demi Lovato Revealed She Mixed Meth, Molly, With Coke, Weed, Alcohol, Oxycontin In Relapse That Led To Overdose

In a candid new docuseries, Demi Lovato discusses her overdose, mental health, and experiences of sexual assault. Lovato's experience sheds light on some common assumptions and overlooked issues around drug use that can make it more difficult for people struggling with substance use to get the care they need. Here are a few important takeaways from Lovato's story.

Lovato's 2018 relapse occurred after six months of sobriety, and she experienced an overdose a few months later, she explained in the docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil, which premiered this week at SXSW and will launch on March 23 on YouTube. Because the overdose was treated initially with naloxone, a drug that can reverse opioid overdoses, many people assumed that she had used opioids.

She said: "I picked up a bottle of red wine that night, and it wasn't even 30 minutes before I called someone that I knew had drugs on them. I'm surprised I didn't OD that night."

She explained: "I ended up at a party. I just so happened to run into my old drug dealer from six years before - and the odds of that happening was crazy - and he had a duffel bag, and I just went to town. I went on a shopping spree. I tried meth. I mixed it with molly, with coke, weed, alcohol, Oxycontin. And that alone should've killed me."  

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"It was only two weeks before I was introduced to heroin and crack cocaine. I started using recreationally, and obviously, you can't do that with heroin before you become addicted to it."

Three months after she relapsed, Lovato was tragically found unconscious at home after accidentally overdosing. She had suffered a heart attack and three strokes and woke up in the hospital legally blind.

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Demi says that after that, although she is 'done with the stuff that's going to kill me', she still drinks alcohol and smokes weed.

She said: "Telling myself that I can never have a drink or smoke marijuana, I feel like that's setting myself up for failure because I am such a black and white thinker. I had it drilled into my head for so many years that one drink was equivalent to a crack pipe."

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In a clip, she said she had been 'taken advantage of', adding: "I didn't just overdose. I was taken advantage of."

Demi revealed: ‘I lost my virginity in a rape. 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.’ 

Sirah Mitchell, a friend of the star, spoke of the dealer's horrific act just prior to her overdose, saying he had given her heroin 'laced with fentanyl'. He also ended up getting her really high and leaving her for dead, Mitchell said  

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Demi explained: "When they found me, I was naked, blue. I was literally left for dead after he took advantage of me. When I woke up in the hospital, they asked if we had had consensual sex. There was one flash that I had of him on top of me. I saw that flash and I said yes. It wasn't until a month after the overdose that I realized, ' I wasn't in any state of mind to make a consensual decision.'"