Demi Lovato claims she was sexually assaulted on the night of her overdose

Singer Demi Lovato has alleged she was sexually assaulted by a drug dealer the night of her 2018 heroin overdose in her bombshell new documentary.

Demi Lovato claims she was sexually assaulted and “left for dead” by the dealer who delivered her a dangerous cocktail of heroin and other drugs on the night she suffered a near-fatal overdose three years ago.

The Heart Attack singer recalls how she was forced to face what happened when she woke up in the hospital after the incident and doctors asked her if she had had consensual sex.

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Demi Lovato has spoken in depth about the night she almost died in her new docuseries, Dancing With the Devil. Picture: YouTube

“I remembered him lying on top of me, so I said, ‘yes,’” Lovato says in her YouTube docuseries, Dancing With the Devil.

She says she soon realised, however, that because of her highly inebriated state the night of the July 2018 near-tragedy, she had been in no condition to agree to sex.

“It wasn’t until maybe a month after my overdose that I realised, ‘Hey, you weren’t in any state of mind to make a consensual decision,’” she recalls. “That kind of trauma doesn’t go away overnight.”

Lovato, 28, admits that after her overdose she relapsed once more.

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Demi Lovato revealed she was pronounced ‘five to ten more minutes’ before death by her doctors the night of her overdose. Picture: YouTube.

“I wish I could say the last night that I ever touched heroin was the night of my overdose but it wasn’t,” she says, explaining that she wanted to take “the power back” from her drug dealer, whom she didn’t name, after he allegedly assaulted her.

“I wanted to rewrite his choice of violating me,” she explains. “I wanted it now to be my choice, and he also had something that I wanted, which were drugs. I ended up getting high.”

As part of a misguided plan to get “the power back” after a week long intensive trauma retreat she even called up the dealer who attacked her and told him: “I’m going to f**k you.”

Lovato says she regretted doing that, as she realised that, in the aftermath of her relapse, she had hit rock bottom.

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Lovato said she hit ‘rock bottom’ after her heroin overdose. Picture: AFP.

“I thought, ‘How did I pick up the same drugs that put me in the hospital?’” she recalls. “I was like mortified at my decisions.”

Now sober from the drugs that put her in the hospital, Lovato says in the docuseries – and in a cover story for the March issue of Elle – she doesn’t restrict herself entirely from marijuana or alcohol.

“I’ve learned that shutting the door on things makes me want to open the door even more,” she says. “I know I’m done with the stuff that’s gonna kill me … but I wish that I could get some relief maybe through like weed or something, right?”

Elsewhere in her documentary tell-all, she revealed she still suffers from the effects of her near-death experience, having suffered three strokes, a heart attack and sustained lasting brain damage.

“I don’t drive a car, because I have blind spots on my vision. And I also for a long time had a really hard time reading. It was a big deal when I was able to read out of a book, which was like two months later because my vision was so blurry,” she said according to People.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission