The long-term effects serve as a “constant reminder to stay on the right path.”
The overdose also caused her to have three strokes and a heart attack. “I was left with brain damage,” she said. For a couple of months, she had a “really hard time reading,” they added, “because my vision was so blurry.”
Now that she’s sober, the “Confident” singer is “in a more positive mind space,” she told Cohen. “I’m not focusing on the shame at all because I have a lot of sympathy for where I was at at that time and the choices that I made, and I understand why it happened and what happened. But there’s no shame that comes with it because it was just a life lesson that I had to learn.”
Instead, she chooses to focus on the fact that she survived. “It could’ve been so much worse,” they said. “I’m grateful that it is only what it is.”
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