Demi Lovato is 90 days sober, according to her mom, Dianna De La Garza.
"She has 90 days," De La Garza said on Maria Menounos' Sirius XM show on Friday. "I couldn't be more thankful or more proud of her because addiction being a disease, it's work...It's very hard. It's not easy, and there are no shortcuts."
The milestone comes after the 26-year-old was hospitalized in July for an apparent overdose. Sources told The Times that firefighters treated Lovato with Narcan to reverse the effects of an overdose. TMZ initially reported that the "Complicated" singer appeared to be suffering from a heroin overdose, and the website's report was among the first tips Lovato's mom had about the incident.
"I was shocked. I was looking at my phone and I saw all these text messages coming in from all over," she told Menounos. "And the one text message that clued me in on what was going on said, 'I just saw on TMZ and I'm so sorry,' I was terrified to look at my phone.
"Before I could get to TMZ, I got the phone call from her assistant and she said, 'We're at the hospital.' So then I knew, OK, she's not gone. She's here. And I said, 'What's going on?' And the words that I heard are just a nightmare for any parent: 'Demi overdosed.'"
At the time, De La Garza knew her daughter wasn't sober but she didn't know the extent of her use because they didn't live together, she said.
But a month before, the singer had released the single "Sober," detailing her relapse after six years of sobriety and essentially issuing an apology to her mother about it. It was a "heartbreaking song," De La Garza said.
Lovato was conscious by the time her mother arrived at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, but it was a "rough two days," she said.
She's still unsure what led to the singer's relapse, but mentioned that it had been an emotional year that involved the deaths of five close family members.
