Demi Lovato\u2019s mother is speaking out about the singer\u2019s overdose for the first time.<\/p>\n
With Lovato\u2019s permission, Dianna De La Garza talked with Newsmax TV and recounted the terrifying moment in July when she learned of her daughter\u2019s overdose. She also revealed just how serious the life-or-death incident was, sharing that Lovato was in \u201ccritical condition\u201d for two days. De La Garza is trying to bring awareness of the opioid epidemic sweeping America.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s still a really difficult thing to talk about. I literally start to shake a little bit when I start to remember what happened that day,\u201d she began. \u201cI was actually looking at my phone and all these texts started coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n
De La Garza could see the first lines of the flood of messages saying things like, \u201c\u2018I just heard the news, I\u2019m so sorry, I\u2019m praying for your family, I\u2019m praying for Demi.\u2019 I was in shock. I thought, what is going on? \u2026 My heart just dropped.\u201d<\/p>\n
Soon, her phone rang.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got a phone call from Demi\u2019s assistant at the time, Kelsey. \u2026 I answered the phone and Kelsey was rambling like she had obviously been through something terrible, and she said, \u2018I need to tell you what\u2019s going on \u2026 you\u2019re going to see a report come out.\u2019 I stopped her and said, \u2018Kelsey, just tell me what\u2019s going on.\u2019 The next words that came out of her mouth were words \u2026 that are so difficult to hear as a parent,\u201d De La Garza recalled. \u201cShe said Demi overdosed. So I was in shock, I didn\u2019t know what to say. It was something I never, ever expected to hear as a parent about any of my kids. \u2026 I said, \u2018Is she OK?\u2019 And she stopped for a second and she said, \u2018She\u2019s conscious, but she\u2019s not talking.\u2019 I knew at that point that we were in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n
De La Garza and her other daughters rushed to the hospital to which Lovato had been transported.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ran into the emergency room to be by her side, and she just didn\u2019t look good, at all,\u201d she remembered. \u201cShe was in bad shape, but I said to her, \u2018Demi, I\u2019m here. I love you.\u2019 At that point, she said back to me, \u2018I love you too.\u2019 From that point on, I never allowed myself to ever think that things weren\u2019t going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lovato was in \u201ccritical condition\u201d for a \u201ccouple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just didn\u2019t know for two days if she was going to make it or not,\u201d De La Garza said. \u201cI was very concerned, and I was trying to be strong for her and for her sisters and for my family back home. \u2026 I just feel like the reason she\u2019s alive today is because of the millions of prayers that went up that day.\u201d De La Garza also thanked the doctors at Cedars-Sinai: \u201cI couldn\u2019t have asked for a better team of people to save her life.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first we\u2019ve heard just how dire the July 24 situation was. At the time, reports claimed that Lovato was hospitalized for an extended period of time due to \u201ccomplications.\u201d After 10 days, she was released from the hospital and immediately entered rehab. Lovato has been seeking treatment ever since.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can honestly say today that she is doing really well,\u201d De La Garza added. \u201cShe\u2019s happy, she\u2019s healthy, she\u2019s working on her sobriety, and she\u2019s getting the help she needs. That in itself encourages me about her future and the future of our family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lovato\u2019s mother said she\u2019s now become an \u201caccidental spokeswoman\u201d for the opioid crisis after going through this terrifying ordeal. \u201cYou don\u2019t see it coming, and that\u2019s the scary thing,\u201d she explained. \u201cThe opioid crisis in America is at an epidemic level, and people don\u2019t understand that until they start researching it. \u2026 After this happened, I started researching and looking into how opioids are killing our kids. \u2026 Every 15 minutes someone dies from an overdose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n She concluded, \u201cI want to do whatever I can in this fight and fight with whoever will help me.\u201d<\/p>\n It hasn\u2019t been confirmed what Lovato overdosed on, but a source maintained to Yahoo Entertainment that it wasn\u2019t heroin, contrary to TMZ\u2019s initial report. It\u2019s believed to have been oxycodone laced with fentanyl.<\/p>\n Before entering rehab, Lovato made a statement to her fans vowing to \u201ckeep fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Demi Lovato\u2019s mother is speaking out about the singer\u2019s overdose for the first time. With Lovato\u2019s permission, Dianna De La Garza talked with Newsmax TV and recounted the terrifying moment in July when she learned of her daughter\u2019s overdose. She also revealed just how serious the life-or-death incident was, sharing that Lovato was in \u201ccritical condition\u201d for two days. De …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[611],"tags":[1389],"yoast_head":"\n\r\n \t