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The American singer
Demi Lovato
has assured that she was raped during her adolescence, at a time when she
was an actress on the Disney Channel,
in a revealing documentary that opened the South By Southwest online festival on Tuesday.
"Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil" ("Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil"),
a YouTube original series, focuses on the fentanyl overdose that the singer suffered in 2018 that caused brain damage and partial blindness. as well as in his battle with addiction.
The four episodes, presented as the opening film of the SXSW festival, also contain new details of sexual assaults suffered by Lovato, including one on the night she overdosed.
"I know what I'm about to say is going to impact people too. But as a teenager I was in a pretty similar situation and
I lost my virginity in rape,"
says Lovato.
"We were cool, but I said 'This is not going to go any further, I am a virgin and I do not want to lose (my virginity) in this way'", he says.
"But that didn't matter - it did anyway."
Lovato, now 28, does not mention her attacker but says the rape occurred when she "was part of the Disney cast" and that she
had to "keep seeing this person
all the time" after the attack.
Lovato says he denounced the attacker but "never got in trouble for it - he
was
never
removed from the movie
he was in."
Lovato rose to fame with the Disney Channel movie
Camp Rock,
shot when she was 15 years old.
SXSW Online 2021, a film, television, music and technology conference, closes next Saturday.
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