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Demi Lovato's highly-anticipated four part-documentary 'Dancing with the Devil' has yet to premiere on March 23 (U.S time) on YouTube, but it already premiered on SXSW. A number of news and entertainment outlets have already reported the shocking revelations that Demi had in the YouTube Originals docu, such as having experienced sexual assault twice.

Demi Lovato in her 'Dancing with the Devil' documentary' / Source: Demi Lovato (YouTube)

One of the explosive revelations of Demi is that she lost her virginity at the age of 15.

The 'Camp Rock' star says in the documentary, “I lost my virginity in a rape.”

The Guardian quoted Demi as saying, “We were hooking up but I said, 'hey, this is not going any farther, I'm a virgin and I don't want to lose it this way.'

“And that didn't matter to them, they did it anyways. And I internalized it and I told myself it was my fault, because I still went in the room with him, I still hooked up with him.”

Demi also reportedly said, “I didn't have the romantic first time. That was not it for me -- that sucked. Then I had to see this person all the time so I stopped eating and coped in other ways."

Access Hollywood says Demi tried to cope with it through bulimia, self-harm, and eventually through drug and alcohol dependency.

Demi didn't exactly say when and where the said rape happened and who her alleged attacker was, but she hinted that it happened during the period when she was still “part of that Disney crowd that publicly said they were waiting till marriage.”

It can be recalled that in the late 2000s young Disney stars such as Demi, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and the Jonas brothers wore purity rings, symbolizing their commitment to preserving their virginity until marriage.

Demi also allegedly reported the incident to some adults, but her attacker never got castigated for it.

“And, you know what, f___ it, I'm just gonna say it: my #MeToo story is me telling somebody that someone did this to me, and they never got in trouble for it. They never got taken out of the movie they were in.”

People wrote that Demi tried to make things right by getting in touch with her abuser again to do it “her way” the second time.

Demi said, “I called that person back a month later and tried to make it right by being in control. All it did was make me feel worse.”

Aside from the moment she first lost her virginity, Demi also revealed in the docu that she was actually taken advantage of sexually by her drug dealer during the night of her nearly fatal 2018 overdose.

Demi recounted, "When they found me, I was naked, blue. I was literally left for dead after he took advantage of me."

She also revealed, "When I woke up in the hospital, they asked if we had had consensual sex. There was one flash that I had of him on top of me. I saw that flash and I said yes.

“It wasn't until a month after the overdose that I realized, 'You weren't in any state of mind to make a consensual decision.'"

Demi's 'Dancing with the Devil' documentary will premiere in the Philippines on March 24, at 3:00 a.m. on the her official YouTube Channel.

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