Los Angeles: Singer-songwriter Demi Lovato, says she was ‘raped’ when she was a teenager, and “sexually assaulted” by her drug seller in July 2018, on the night time she had a drug overdose and nearly died.
“I didn’t just overdose. I was taken advantage of,” the 28-year-old says in her documentary sequence, “Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil”, which premiered on the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, as reported by People journal.
“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 realised, ‘you weren’t in any state of mind to make a consensual decision’,” she added.
In the sequence, Lovato recounts not simply the trauma of the actual night time however a earlier sexual assault, too.
“When I was a teenager, I was in a very similar situation. I lost my virginity in a rape. I was part of that Disney crowd that publicly said they were waiting until marriage. I didn’t have the romantic first time. That was not it for me — that sucked. Then I had to see this person all the time so I stopped eating and coped in other ways,” she stated including that the one that assaulted her “never got in trouble for it”.
“They never got taken out of the movie they were in. I always kept it quiet because I’ve always had something to say. I don’t know, I’m tired of opening my mouth. Here’s the tea,” she stated.
