Demi Lovato was fortunate to outlive her 2018 drug overdose, instantly after which the musician suffered three strokes and a coronary heart assault. But in a uncooked new interview with Andy Cohen for SiriusXM, Lovato shared that just about precisely 5 years out from the near-fatal incident, they nonetheless expertise listening to loss and imaginative and prescient impairment because of this.
“I wouldn’t change my path because I don’t have any regrets,” the 30-year-old “Cool for the Summer” singer started. “When I think about things, the closest thing that I get to a regret is when I overdosed … that overdose caused me a lot of … it actually caused a disability. I have vision impairment and hearing impairment to this day.”
“I don’t drive because I have blind spots in my vision,” she continued. “It’s a daily constant reminder. You know, anytime I look at something, like, I have blind spots in my vision when I look at your face, and so it’s a constant reminder to stay on the right path because I never want that to happen again.”
Lovato was rushed to the hospital July 24, 2018, after overdosing on heroin, having relapsed earlier that yr after six years of sobriety. The former Disney star is now sober, revealing final yr they accomplished one other spherical of remedy in 2021 earlier than beginning work on 2022 album Holy Fvck.
“Luckily in the mind state that I’m in now — you know, being sober, having a clear head — I just think in a more positive mind space and I’m not focusing on the shame at all,” she mirrored. “I know I have a lot of sympathy for where I was at that time and the choices that I made and I understand why it happened and what happened, but there’s no shame that comes with it because it was just a life lesson that I had to learn.”
In current years, Lovato has pivoted from pop to rock music — even holding a “funeral” for his or her former style — and lately introduced that an album of rockified variations of older pop hits reminiscent of “Heart Attack” and “Sorry Not Sorry” known as REVAMPED is dropping in September. But Lovato additionally advised Cohen that she’s not essentially accomplished with pop music eternally and even desires of collaborating with Kelly Clarkson sometime.
“I never say never because you never know what’ll happen, but I’ve just been really influenced by rock music and it’s what I have fun performing live,” Lovato shared. “It was just the path that I took at that time and then when I started, I got sober and I was reevaluating everything in my life including my music and I was like, ‘What makes me happy?’ Like, that’s the most important question and I was like, ‘What makes me happy is listening to rock music and performing rock music.’”
Watch Lovato on SiriusXM above.
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