The American singer, who started her career as an actress at a young age, has frequently been in the news in recent years due to her struggles with alcohol and drug addiction. Demi Lovato has openly discussed her addiction issues in the media. All of this reaches a low point when, in 2018, the media reports that Lovato is rushed to the hospital due to a drug overdose. What was going on in her mind that night? Where did it go wrong? And how is she picking up the pieces to move forward? These are the topics that her family, friends, team, and Demi herself discuss in her intense YouTube documentary, Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil.
For years, Demi Lovato has been a spokesperson for various mental health issues. The singer and actress struggled with an eating disorder, battled depression, and an alcohol and drugs addiction for a considerable amount of time. She addressed the latter problem and declared herself sober. Lovato was doing better until she released the song Sober in 2018, where she sings about relapsing into her addiction after six years. Less than a month later, the news broke about Lovato’s overdosis and hospitalization.
It’s undeniable that Demi Lovato hit rock bottom after the events of 2018. So, it’s remarkable that she now shares her full story and genuinely tries to recover without forgetting the past.
In Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, no one holds back in telling the complete story. All details of Demi’s life before, during, and after the overdose are discussed. Lovato wants everyone to know the truth about her lowest point because there were so many falsehoods circulating. Lovato’s fans wrongly blamed one of her friends, because she hosted a party that Lovato attended that night.
Demi Lovato sings her way through it
The intensity of this four-part documentary comes to the forefront when in the scene where her assistant found Lovato unconscious. The way Lovato’s team and the doctors handled the situation indicates how precarious it was for the singer. She acknowledges this herself and now sings about it on the accompanying album, Dancing With The Devil … The Art Of Starting Over. The title track, Dancing With The Devil, features Demi Lovato delivering the powerful lyrics, “Almost made it to heaven, it was closer than you know“.
The documentary reinforces the message she aims to convey with the album, and vice versa. For fans of Demi Lovato and those interested, the documentary is definitely a must-watch! It’s a shocking story of which you probably only knew half the truth.
The documentary “Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil” is not available on popular streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, or Amazon Prime Video but is ‘simply’ accessible to everyone on YouTube.
