"March 2020 was the most pivotal part of my life. It was my 17th birthday, and my dad wanted to do something online. He got all of my friends on, and Dario started playing covers. Then my dad's good friend Melvin was on, and he called his friend John Mayer."
"I was like, you have a platform, we need to raise money. And it skyrocketed. We raised $38 million for 75 different charities."
"I was in excruciating pain to the point where it was debilitating. It was hard for me to make friends. I was always in bed. I was always complaining."
During March 2020, Demi Weitz turned her 17th birthday Zoom celebration into a massive charitable fundraising initiative. Leveraging her father's connections as a Hollywood agent, she recruited hundreds of performers including Dolly Parton, John Legend, and the Hamilton cast to participate. The effort raised $38 million for 75 different charities. However, behind this public success, Demi was privately struggling with severe health issues that caused debilitating pain and required six surgeries during her freshman year of college. Eventually, she received a diagnosis related to progressive kidney dysfunction that had worsened over time.
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