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First, with 2012sStay Strong, which starred a seemingly sober Lovato and detailed her post-rehab recovery at 18.
(She later revealed shed been using throughout filming.)
Dancing With the Devilis Demi at her most authentic and autobiographical.
Heres what we learned along the way.
The control and the restriction was way too toxic for her and she was miserable, he says.
Im not happy, she says.
At a party later that night, she ran into her drug dealer from six years prior.
That night I did drugs Id never done before, Demi recalls.
Id never done meth before.
In her account of the night, Vitale recalls feeling uneasy about leaving Demis home.
Should we have stayed?And Im like,What is she going to do?
Shes going to go to bed.No, shes fine.
As more of Demis team members came to assist, the situation became dire.
There was one point that she turned blue her whole body completely turned blue.
I was just, like, shes dead for sure.
It was the craziest thing Ive ever seen, Jordan recalls.
It wasnt long until Demis condition became a national headline.
Demi revealed that since the overdose she can no longer drive and still experiences blind spots in her vision.
In addition to giving her drugs, Lovato claims her dealer physically took advantage of her.
There was one flash I had of him on top of me, Demi recalls.
I got a death threat, recalls Sirah.
People showed up at my apartment to threaten my life.
No one wanted to bring their kid to an apparent heroin dealer teacher.
I lost any artist that I was working with.
They didnt want to deal with the drama; I had TMZ following me to the studio.
She tells Vitale in one scene, Dont be afraid of saying anything.
I wanted to rewrite his choice of violating me.
I wanted it now to bemychoice, she explains.
And he also had something that I wanted, which were drugs.
But instead, all it did was bring me back to my knees begging to God for help.
She lost her virginity in a rape when she was 15 years old.
According to Lovato, this took place around 2008 or 2009 while she was acting onthe Disney Channel.
(During that timeline, she would have been onCamp RockorSonny With a Chance.)
I stopped eating and coped in other ways cutting, throwing up, whatever, she says.
My bulimia got so bad that I started throwing up blood for the first time.
They never got taken out of the movie they were in.
Recovery isnt a one-size-fits-all solution, she states.
It doesnt work for me to say, Im never gonna do this again.
Lovato doesnt reveal whether she was given a new diagnosis, instead saying that she needed to grow up.
(He appears in the doc via selfies from Lovatos phone.)
I realized as time went on that I didnt actually know the person that I was engaged to.
Her sexuality is now fluid.The breakup allowed her to look within and reconsider her sexuality.
(She nowidentifiesas pansexual.)
This post has been updated following the release of each episode.
