Demi Lovato awake after reported heroin overdose
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A representative for Demi Lovato says she is awake and
recovering with her family after the pop singer was reportedly
hospitalized Tuesday for an overdose.
"Demi is awake and with her family who want to express
thanks to everyone for the love, prayers and support," Lovato's
representative said in a statement Tuesday evening. "Some of the
information being reported is incorrect and they respectfully ask
for privacy and not speculation as her health and recovery is the
most important thing right now."
The statement did not provide any details on what led to
the singer's hospitalization.
Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Margaret Stewart said
earlier paramedics received a call about a 25-year-old woman
in need of medical attention at 11:22 a.m. PT Tuesday. The woman
was transported to a nearby hospital, but Stewart said she could
not confirm the woman's condition or provide any additional
details.
Los Angeles police were also dispatched, but Officer
Carlos Zaragoza said he could not release the woman's identity or
condition.
Earlier attempts to reach Lovato's sister and mother were
unsuccessful. TMZ was the first to report that Lovato had been
hospitalized for a drug overdose, based on its sources, and other
outlets including People magazine also reported that her
hospitalization based on sources.
Lovato indicated in a new song released last month that
she relapsed after six years of sobriety. On the song
Sober, she sings the lyrics: "Momma, I'm so sorry I'm
not sober anymore/And daddy please forgive me for the drinks
spilled on the floor."
In her YouTube documentary released last year called
Demi Lovato, Simply Complicated, she openly discusses
her cocaine use and battles with alcohol.
Fox said it would pull its episode of Beat
Shazam featuring Lovato, which was to air Tuesday night,
because of the recent news.
"We have decided to replace the episode of Beat
Shazam with another all-new episode. Our thoughts go out to
Demi and her family," the network said.
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Lovato was scheduled to perform in Atlantic City on
Thursday.
She also has a performance scheduled in Toronto on Sunday
with Jason Mraz in support of Kids Help Phone.
News crews gathered outside Lovato's home in the Hollywood
Hills, where vehicles were seen entering and leaving Tuesday
afternoon. Their occupants did not stop to speak to
reporters.
Celebrities show support
The hashtag PrayForDemi trended on Twitter and several
celebrities posted supportive words Tuesday, including Missy
Elliott, Ariana Grande, Brad Paisley, Kesha, Bebe Rexha, Meghan
Trainor, Maren Morris, Kehlani and British electronic group Clean
Bandit, whose current single Solo features
Lovato.
Ellen DeGeneres tweeted that "it breaks my heart that she
is going through this. She is a light in this world, and I am
sending my love to her and her family."
The singer-actress, who entered rehab in 2010, struggled
with an eating disorder, self-mutilation and other issues. She has
spoken out about her battles with drugs and alcohol over the years,
and she's become a role model for young women and men who have
faced their own issues.
Lovato, who was a child actress on the TV series
Barney & Friends, broke on the scene as a teen on
the Disney Channel film Camp Rock and the network
series Sonny with a Chance. She went on to become a
multi-platinum pop star, launching Top 10 hits like Sorry Not
Sorry, Skyscraper, Heart
Attack. Her 2015 album, Confident, earned
her a Grammy nomination for best pop vocal album.
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Workers search for missing as Greece wildfires death toll rises to 79
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Emergency crews were searching Wednesday through charred
homes and cars for those still missing after the deadliest
wildfires to hit Greece in decades scorched seaside areas near
Athens, killing at least 79 people and sending thousands
fleeing.
There was no official indication as to how many people
might be missing, and some took to social media and Greek
television stations with appeals for information on their loved
ones.
Fire service spokesperson Stavroula Malliri said the death toll
had increased by five to 79.
More than 280 firefighters were still in the area to the
northeast of Athens in the wider Rafina area, dousing the remaining
flames to prevent flare-ups. Another 200 firefighters backed
up by a water-dropping helicopter were tackling the second forest
fire west of the capital, near Agioi Theodori, where local
authorities pre-emptively evacuated three nearby communities
overnight, according to the fire department.
Flags across Greece were flying at half-mast after the
prime minister declared three days of national mourning.
The two fires on either side of the Greek capital started Monday
within hours of each other, and were fanned by gale-force winds
that hampered firefighting efforts.
Fast-moving fires
The speed with which the fire northeast of Athens spread took
many by surprise, and is believed to have contributed to the high
death toll.
"We couldn't see any fire. The fire came suddenly. There was so
much wind, we didn't realize how it happened," said Anna Kiriazova,
56, who survived with her husband by shutting themselves in their
house instead of trying to flee through the flames.
A house is threatened by a huge blaze during a wildfire in Kineta,
near Athens, on Monday. (Valerie Gache/AFP/Getty Images)
Kiriazova said they doused their house in the Mati area near
Rafina with water from a garden hose, and credited the fact that
their window frames were metal instead of wood for their home being
spared.
"We shut ourselves in the house, we closed the shutters, we had
towels over our faces," she told The Associated Press. "The inferno
lasted about an hour. I have no words to describe what we lived
through."
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Her 65-year-old husband, Theodoros Christopoulos, said the
couple decided to take shelter in their home because the narrow
roads outside were jammed with cars.
"There was a great panic because the whole street was blocked by
cars," Christopoulos said. "Shouting, hysteria, they could see the
fire was coming with the wind. It already smelled a lot, the sky
was black overhead and in no time at all the fire was here."
Hundreds of others abandoned cars and fled to nearby beaches,
from where they were evacuated hours later by coast guard and
private boats. Dozens swam out to sea despite rough weather to
escape the intense heat and choking smoke blanketing the area.
Searching for loved ones
With the number of missing unclear, authorities appealed for
people to call them if they were searching for loved ones. Some
people also turned to Greek television and radio stations, asking
for information from the public for relatives they hadn't heard
from since the blaze.
The story of one man desperately searching for his children
highlights the plight of many families looking for relatives.
Firefighters and volunteers try to extinguish flames during a
wildfire at the village of Kineta, near Athens, on Tuesday.
(Valerie Gache/AFP/Getty Images)
Yiannis Philipopoulos appeared on television early Wednesday
appealing for help to locate his missing twin daughters, whom he
said he had spotted in television footage arriving in the port of
Rafina in a fishing boat during the evacuation of people from
beaches overnight Monday to Tuesday.
Yiannis Philipopoulos said he and his wife recognized 9-year-old
Sophia and Vasiliki in the news footage after spending a fruitless
day searching hospitals and giving DNA samples at the Athens
morgue. He had contacted police, who were helping search for the
girls.
Philipopoulos said the girls had been with his parents, of whom
there was no sight in the footage. Speaking on television stations
Skai and Alpha, he said the images gave him hope his children were
alive, and urged anyone with information to contact him.
The footage showed two girls among other people, many clad just
in swimsuits, disembarking from the fishing boat. Philipopoulos
said he went with police to the TV station and saw the footage in
higher resolution, and was sure the children were his daughters.
But he had not heard from them since the fire.
The captain of the fishing boat said authorities had recorded
the names of rescued people as they disembarked. The names of the
two girls, however, appeared not to be among them.
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Sergio Marchionne, hailed for Chrysler and Fiat turnarounds, dead at 66
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How the tech behind bitcoin could safeguard marijuana sales data
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