Demi Lovato’s mother has broken her silence on the singer’s near-fatal overdose.
Almost two months after Demi was hospitalised, Dianna de la Garza opened up about her daughter’s overdose on Newsmax TV.
She said: “It’s 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.”
Recalling the day Demi was rushed to hospital, Dianna revealed that she got a call from the singer’s assistant Kelsey Kershner.
“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.”
“We got there as quickly as we could,” she recalled. “Dallas and Madison (Demi’s sisters) and I jumped out of the car at the emergency room and ran into the emergency room to be by her side.”
“She 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.'”
“From that point on, I never allowed myself to ever think that things weren’t going to be OK,” she continued.
“I prayed, of course, all the way to the hospital, and my faith is strong. I think that was one of things that got me through the next couple of days when she was in critical condition. We just didn’t know for two days if she was going to make it or not.”
Demi’s mom went on to thank everyone for their support, and praised the team at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.
“I just feel like the reason she’s alive today is because of the millions of prayers that went up that day when everybody found out what was happening,” she said.
“I don’t think she would be here if it hadn’t been for those prayers and the good doctors and Cedars-Sinai. They were the best. I couldn’t have asked for a better team of people to save her life.”
As for how Demi’s doing now, Dianna said, “She’s happy. She’s healthy. She’s working on her sobriety, and she’s getting the help she needs.”
Before the end of her interview, Dianna spoke candidly about the opioid crisis in America.
“The opioid crisis in America is at an epidemic level, and people don’t understand that until they start researching it…After this happened, I started researching and looking into how opioids are killing our kids,” she said.
“It’s happening, I think, it’s every 15 minutes someone dies of an overdose. It’s not just the kids, either—it’s grown-ups. It’s mothers. It’s fathers.”
“It’s something that, if it has not touched your family’s life right now, before this gets any better, it has every chance of doing that,” she said. “So thank you for helping me speak out. I want to do whatever I can in this fight and fight with whoever will help.”
