Wilmer Valderrama visits Demi Lovato in hospital after her overdose
Though he remained silent on social media, Wilmer Valderrama rushed to see Demi Lovato at the hospital after her drug overdose.
Valderrama, 38, was photographed outside Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
E! News reported the “That ’70s Show” star appeared “somber” and stayed for about two hours.
“He was serious, intense and seemed distant, but focused and very calm at the same time,” a witness claimed of Valderrama’s demeanor.
Lovato, 25, and Valderrama split in June 2016 after six years together, but have remained close since their breakup.
The “Heart Attack” singer was hospitalized Tuesday for a drug overdose that was initially suspected to be heroin but may have been from a different opioid or combination of drugs, including meth.
She admitted a month earlier to relapsing after six years of sobriety.
Her rep said in a statement Tuesday, “Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everyone for the love, prayers and support. 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.”
In March 2015, Lovato credited Valderrama with saving her life and claimed that during their off-again periods, their splits were usually due to her relapsing.
“The only times we ever broke up were when I was relapsing, whether it was drugs or in a bad place and rebelling against everybody, not just him,” she confessed in August 2015. “People say that relapses happen before you use. Your mind starts setting up the relapse before you take that drink or that first hit. The times we’d broken up, I had already gone to that place of, ‘Yeah, this is what’s happening.’ I didn’t realize it at the time, but I just wanted to sabotage everything around me so that I could sabotage myself.”
The former Disney star revealed in her 2017 documentary “Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated” that Valderrama is the love of her life and that she isn’t sure she’d ever get over him.
“I do have moments where it’s late at night and I’m lonely and I wonder if I made the right decision because love is a gamble,” she admitted. “I don’t know if I’ll lose him for the rest of my life. I think my heart is always with Wilmer, I think it was with Wilmer, I think it is with Wilmer, I think it will be. Because you don’t share six years with somebody and not give them a piece of your heart and vice versa. I’m pretty sure that I’m not going to meet anybody that compares to him but I’m trying to keep an open heart and open mind when it comes to that.”
Reps for Lovato and Valderrama did not immediately return requests for comment.
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