A little over a month after singer Demi Lovato was rushed to hospital for overdosing on oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl, an alleged drug dealer has come out to claim that Demi knew the nature of the drugs and the potential harm involved.
Brandon Johnson who claims to be a close friend of hers said that on the day of the overdose, she was a little drunk by the time he went over to her place at 4 am.
In the video first released by TMZ, Brandon said nothing out of the ordinary happened that morning, insisting, “When I was with her she was fine the whole time. She fell asleep. It happens all the time. I put her under the covers and tucked her in.”
Demi was found unconscious hours later that day, barely breathing. She had reportedly started doing drugs again after 6 years of staying sober.
The Cool For The Summer singer regained consciousness after being in hospital for 10 days.
She was released straight to a rehab center in Chicago where she will be recovering and focusing on herself for the next four months.
Lovato had suffered from depression, an eating disorder, self-harm, and being bullied before she went into rehab at the age of 18.
On November 1, 2010, Lovato withdrew from the Jonas Brothers Live in Concert tour, entering a treatment facility for “physical and emotional issues”.
It was reported that she decided to enter treatment after punching female dancer Alex Welch; her management and family convinced her she needed help. Lovato said she took “100 percent, full responsibility” for the incident.
On January 28, 2011, Lovato completed inpatient treatment at Timberline Knolls and returned home. She acknowledged that she had had bulimia, had harmed herself, and had been “self-medicating” with drugs and alcohol “like a lot of teens do to numb their pain” She added that she “basically had a nervous breakdown” and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder during her treatment. Lovato later said that she had used cocaine several times a day and smuggled cocaine onto airplanes.
In April 2011, Lovato became a contributing editor for Seventeen magazine, writing an article that described her struggles. In March 2012, MTV aired a documentary, Demi Lovato: Stay Strong, about her rehab and recovery. She began work on her fourth album the following month. In January 2013, it was reported that Lovato had been living in a sober-living facility in Los Angeles for more than a year because she felt it was the best way to avoid returning to her addictions and eating disorder. Lovato celebrated the five year anniversary of her sobriety on March 15, 2017.Lovato started training in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu in 2016