Demi Lovato's Mother Says She Still 'Shakes' Thinking About Her Daughter's Overdose
In late July news broke that Demi Lovato was hospitalized for a reported overdose. It wasn’t until August 5 that the singer opened up about the incident herself, writing on Instagram, “I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction. What I’ve learned is that this illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome and have not done yet.” Lovato ended her message by telling fans she was going to take some time to “heal and focus on [her] sobriety and road to recovery,” and she hasn’t updated her social media channels since.
Now, the singer’s mother, Dianna de la Garza, is talking about what happened. In a new interview with Newsmax TV, de la Garza confirms Lovato did overdose and that the entire ordeal still makes her “shake.” “It’s still a really difficult thing to talk about,” de la Garza said in the interview. “I literally start to shake a little bit when I start to remember what happened that day.”
According to de la Garza, she first heard about Lovato’s overdose from her friends and loved ones, who bombarded her with text messages expressing their condolences. What they were talking about exactly was still unclear to her, but it became all too real when she received a phone call from Lovato’s assistant, Kelsey. “[Kelsey] said, ‘Demi overdosed,’ de la Garza recalled.
That’s when she and her two other daughters, Dallas and Madison, rushed to the hospital. “We got there as quickly as we could,” de la Garza said. “Dallas and Madison and I jumped out of the car at the emergency room and ran into the emergency room to be by her side. [Lovato] just didn’t look good—at all. She was in bad shape. But I said to her, ‘Demi, I’m here. I love you.’ And at that point she said back to me, ‘I love you, too.'”
De la Garza believes the positive thoughts she and Lovato’s legion of fans put into the universe are why she’s still here today. “I don’t think she would be here if it hadn’t been for those prayers and the good doctors and Cedars-Sinai,” de la Garza said.”They were the best. I couldn’t have asked for a better team of people to save her life.”
Fans will be pleased to know Lovato is now happy, healthy, and “working on her sobriety,” according to de la Garza. “She’s getting the help she needs,” she added. “That in itself encourages me about her future and about the future of our family.”
Watch de al Garza talk about all this and more in the video, above.
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