During an interview at SiriusXM with Andy Cohen, Demi Lovato shares that even after five years from her near-death experience with drug overdose in 2018, after which she experienced three strokes and a heart attack, she still suffer from hearing loss as well as impaired vision from it, according from billboard.com.

She was rushed to the hospital July 24^th in 2018 after heroin overdose, and has experienced relapses earlier. The star is now sober after rounds of treatments.

“I wouldn’t change my path because I don’t have any regrets,” she shared. ““When I think about things, the closest thing that I get to a regret is when I overdosed.” She added that it has led to “vision impairment and hearing impairment to this day.”

The health issues are really affecting the artist’s daily life. “I don’t drive because I have blind spots in my vision,” she recalls, saying that it has been “a daily constant reminder. ” “Like, I have blind spots in my vision when I look at your face, and so it’s a constant reminder to stay on the right path because I never want that to happen again.”

“Luckily in the mind state that I’m in now — you know, being sober, having a clear head,” she furthered, “I just think in a more positive mind space and I’m not focusing on the shame at all.” She concluded that “I know I have a lot of sympathy for where I was at that time and the choices that I made and I understand why it happened and what happened, but there’s no shame that comes with it because it was just a life lesson that I had to learn.”

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