Demi Lovato Reveals She Was Raped at 15 During Disney Days

Pop superstar Demi Lovato was candid in her new documentary, "Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil," revealing that she was a survivor of rape.

Her new documentary premiered last Tuesday at the SXSW Film Festival, wherein she opened up that she was raped not just once but twice. The former Disney star said one of the rape incidents happened during the night of her overdose, according to a We are Mitu report.

Demi Lovato revealed that it was her drug dealer who sexually assaulted her. She shared that when people found her, she was literally left for dead after she was taken advantage of. She then woke up in a hospital, where she was asked if they had consensual sex, to which she answered yes.

"It wasn't until a month after the overdose that I realized, 'You weren't in any state of mind to make a consensual decision," the 28-year-old singer said.

Drug Overdose

Demi Lovato had experienced three strokes and a heart attack after her drug overdose in 2018. Doctors said that she had been minutes away from her death, BBC reported.

Lovato was found unconscious inside her room and was reportedly overdosed on opioids laced with fentanyl. She also cited some of the side effects that she experienced after her overdose.

Lovato said that she had been left with brain damage and still feeling the effects until now. The effects include blurry vision, making reading difficult, and unable to drive.

She said that releasing the documentary was her way to help people who have been on the same path as she has been.

Demi Lovato was popular as a child actor on Barney and Friends and further expanded her popularity on the Disney Channel as a teenager. But she revealed in her documentary that she was raped at 15 years old during her Disney days.

Disney Days

Demi Lovato said that she lost her virginity in rape.

"I called that person back a month later and tried to make it right by being in control and all it did was make me feel worse," she said in The Variety report.

Lovato was among the Disney stars who committed to themselves that they would wait until marriage to have sex. They wore purity rings, including the Jonas Brothers.

Demi Lovato said the incident caused her eating disorders while still interacting with her abuser. She said she stopped eating and started throwing up. It got to the point that her bulimia got worse that she started throwing up blood.

Demi Lovato did not reveal the identity of her abusers. She said the abusers never faced the consequences of their actions, despite informing someone of what happened.

Lovato said that it was hard to come out about the incident at the time, especially at 15, where she was a child star who was supposed to be a perfect role model.

Meanwhile, Demi Lovato announced that her first album since 2017 would be coming out on Apr. 2.

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