Demi Lovato woke up legally blind in an intensive care unit after the July 2018 drug overdose that nearly killed her. It took about two months to recover enough sight to read a book, and she passed the time catching up on 10 years’ worth of sleep, playing board games or taking a single lap around the hospital floor for exercise.
Blind spots made it nearly impossible to see head-on, so she peered at her phone through her peripheral vision and typed using voice notes. “It was interesting how fast I adapted,” she said in a recent interview. “I didn’t leave myself time to really feel sad about it.
I just was like, how do I fix it?” Lovato, the 28-year-old singer, songwriter, actress and budding activist who has been in show business since she.