Whereas Demi Lovato might usually channel her heartbreak into emotional, lovely ballads, her newest single is undoubtedly her most susceptible but. On Thursday night, the 28-year-old singer launched the long-awaited music video for “Dancing With the Devil,” providing a chilling detailed look again at the night time of her near-fatal 2018 overdose that led her to have three strokes and a coronary heart assault.

The story of Lovato’s relapse and overdose from that night time, which she first retells in her YouTube docuseries by the similar title, is re-created scene by scene in her new video. Co-directed by the singer herself, the haunting reenactment precisely depicts actuality, displaying Lovato partying at a bar, being rushed to the hospital, and mendacity in a hospital mattress combating for her life, whereas carrying the similar garments, make-up, and hair from the night time of her overdose. “Thought I knew my restrict / I believed that I may give up it / I believed that I may stroll away simply / However right here I’m, falling down on my knees,” Lovato sings alongside scenes of her screaming from a hospital mattress as medical doctors attempt to restrain her.

Forward of its launch, Lovato described the cathartic course of of making the music video to Leisure Weekly on Wednesday. “Typically being descriptive may be triggering, however that is the unhappy, unhappy reality of how darkish it may possibly get,” she stated. “That is essential to provide individuals, too.” Her seventh studio album, titled Dancing With the Devil… The Artwork of Beginning Over, additionally drops tomorrow on April 2, and options collaborations with Ariana Grande, Saweetie, Noah Cyrus, and extra. Watch the harrowing video above.