Demi Lovato news: Singer breaks silence after suspected overdose and says ‘I will keep fighting’

The singer was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious 
Emma Powell6 August 2018
The Weekender

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Demi Lovato has vowed to “keep fighting” after she was rushed to hospital following a suspected drug overdose.

The 25-year-old singer was found unconscious at her Hollywood home two weeks ago.

Lovato broke her silence on Instagram on Sunday saying she is thankful to be alive and needs time to “heal” and focus on her “road to recovery”.

“I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction,” she told her 70 million followers. “What I’ve learned is that illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome and have not done yet.”

Lovato said she is thankful to God and “forever grateful” to her fans for their “love and support” and “positive thoughts” which she said have “helped me navigate through this difficult time”.

She said she wouldn’t be “writing this letter to all of you” if it wasn’t for her family, team and the staff at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai.

She finished: “I now need time to heal and focus on my sobriety and road to recovery. The love you have all shown me will never be forgotten and I look forward to the day where I can say I came out on the other side.

“I will keep fighting”.

Lovato has been in hospital for two weeks after being found unconscious. She was treated at the scene with naloxone, an anti-overdose medicine, according to TMZ.

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It came months after she celebrated six years of sobriety and documented her battle publicly. But she was reportedly struggling in private, with friends keen for her to shun the spotlight to help.

“Demi never wanted to be a role model. Her sobriety over the last six years was a fight every single day,” a source told People. “After she finally got clean, her team was very hard on her and treated her like she was a kid. It’s so hard to have all these eyes on you all the time.

“She thought she could handle it, but it’s a very slippery slope.”

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