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Demi Lovato[1] is “happy” and “healthy” nearly three months after her reported drug overdose, according to her mother Dianna De La Garza.
The “Sorry Not Sorry” singer, who’s long struggled with substance abuse issues, was hospitalized in July[2] after she was discovered unconscious by friends at her home in the Hollywood Hills in California.
Weeks before the incident, she released the song “Sober”[3] which appeared to chronicle a relapse that she’d had after six years of abstaining from drugs and alcohol.
Lovato herself has yet to make a public statement as she’s currently in a treatment program, but her mother now says she has Lovato’s blessing to open up about the morning she learned her daughter was in trouble.
“It’s still a really difficult thing to talk about,” De La Garza said during an appearance on Newsmax TV.[4] “I literally start to shake a little bit when I start to remember what happened that day.”
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She says she first learned about Lovato’s overdose after receiving a slew of text messages from friends and family reaching out to see if the singer was still alive.
Then while she was with her daughter, Dallas, De La Garza got a phone call from Lovato’s assistant, informing her that the news was indeed true.
“So, I was in shock. I didn’t know what to say,” she said. “It was just something that I never, ever expected to hear, as a parent, about any of my kids.”