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Demi Lovato teared up during an emotional return to music at the Grammy Awards 2020, two years after nearly dying from a drug overdose.
The singer performed Anyone, a song she wrote just days before being rushed to hospital in 2018 after ODing on heroin.
At the start of the song, she choked back tears as she looked down onto the mic and needed the pianist to play his introduction for a second time.
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But Demi, who was wearing a stunning low-cut white dress, bravely continued the performance, nailing her second attempt at the song and was greeted with a standing ovation by the mesmerised crowd.
The track features the moving lyrics "nobody listens to me" - which she admits reflected her state of mind shortly before her overdose.
Demi was revived with naloxone by terrified friends before spending weeks at a rehab facility.
And as she recovered the singer vowed Anyone would be the song she would belt out on her comeback.
In a recent interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1, she discussed the poignant meaning of the track.
She said: "So this song was written and recorded actually very shortly before...everything happened. So I recorded the vocals for it four days before.
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"So the lyrics took on a totally different meaning. At the time when I was recording it — I almost listen back and hear these lyrics as a cry for help, and you kinda listen back to it and think "How did nobody listen to this song and think, 'Let's help this girl', you know what I'm saying?
"And I even think that I was recording it in a state of mind where I felt like I was okay, but clearly I wasn't,' she said. 'And I even listen back to it and think like, gosh, I wish I could go back in time and help that version of myself.'"
The songstress and Disney veteran unveiled her news of her Grammy performance on Instagram earlier this month, writing: "I told you the next time you’d hear from me I’d be singing... #GRAMMYS @recordingacademy @cbstv."
