Entertainment- Demi Lovato said she has "survivor's guilt" after surviving her drug overdose when others haven't.
- She said Mac Miller's death in 2018 put "everything into perspective" for her.
Demi Lovato admitted that she had "survivor's guilt" after hearing about Mac Miller's death shortly after her own overdose.
In September 2018, the rapper died of an accidental overdose at the age of 26. This occurred a couple of months after Lovato was hospitalized and after suffering from a drug overdose.
In a recent interview on "The Zane Lowe Show" podcast, Lovato shared how Miller's death impacted them.
"I had a lot of survivor's guilt after my overdose because right after that, Mac Miller died, and it just put everything into perspective for me of, 'That could have been you, that almost was you, and how are you going to live your life now?' And it affected me a lot," the singer said.
Lovato told Lowe that her survivor's guilt from Miller's death and other friends dying inspired the track "Dead Friends" from her new album "Holy Fvck," which was released Friday.
"I've lost friends that were around my age, and those hurt so deeply because we've been in the trenches together," Lovato said.
Lovato has been vocal in the past in her music and interviews about her addiction. Last year, the singer released a four-part YouTube documentary, "Dancing with the Devil," about their overdose after being given drugs laced with fentanyl.
In the documentary, Lovato revealed that she had a heart attack and three strokes and was declared legally blind. She added that she was sexually assaulted by the man who supplied the drugs.
"When they found me, I was naked, I was blue, I was literally left for dead after he took advantage of me," the "Sober" singer said.
Lovato also recreated their near-fatal overdose in the music video for their song "Dancing with the Devil."
In May, one of the three men who supplied Miller with counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl was sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty.