Demi Lovato had ‘three strokes and one heart attack’ after overdose

“I had three hits. I had a heart attack. My doctors said I had five to ten minutes more [to live]. ”

Demi Lovato reveals her near-fatal drug overdose was much more severe than fans ever imagined in a trailer for her upcoming four-part YouTube documentary series, “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil.”

The 28-year-old pop star has said she hopes to “set the record straight” on what really happened when she was hospitalized with a heroin overdose in 2018.

“Over the past two years, I’ve heard a lot of stories about my life and what people think happened, and I wanted to set the record straight,” Lovato says in the teaser. “If it can help you, I hope it can. It was ultimately my goal to post this: Helping people on this path.

Recalling her overdose on July 24, 2018, Lovato says she “broke” despite her runaway success at the time – with two songs topping the charts and just being nominated for a Grammy.

“Demi is good at making you think she’s okay,” says her stepfather, Eddie De La Garza. “Demi knows very well how to hide what she needs to hide,” adds her sister Madison De La Garza.

“She should be dead,” adds a friend.

The trailer, which shares a clip from her upcoming song “Dancing With the Devil,” debuted Wednesday during the Television Critics Association’s winter 2021 press tour. The series will seemingly leave nothing to chance, as Lovato even discusses her now-failed engagement to Max Ehrich – flashing her diamond ring before the next scene shows her scowling and ringless.

“I don’t even know why I’m sober anymore,” she says at one point later in the trailer, adding that she’s “really struggling” recovering.

Lovato also revealed that OD left her with brain damage, according to Billboard, and that she was unable to drive due to blind spots in her vision. She also had to relearn to read after suffering severe eye damage.

“I ended up with brain damage, and I still experience the effects today,” she said at the TCA event. “I don’t drive a car because of the blind spots in my vision… I had a hard time reading.”

“I’ve had a lot of lives, like my cat, you know?” Lovato said. “I am in my ninth life.”

“Dancing With the Devil,” which opens the 2021 SXSW Film Festival in March, will air on YouTube on March 23.