Demi Lovato Speaks Out About Drug Addiction, Mental Illness and Bisexuality
by EG
There's a lot more in Demi Lovato's past than Disney, Joe Jonas, The X Factor and Glee. The singer/actress has a new documentary coming out, and details about her complicated past are coming out, too. Lovato has cleared many hurdles on her way to stardom, but she admits that there are more hurdles still in her way.
Via Us Weekly.
Demi Lovato was thrust into the spotlight at a very young age and has experienced her fair share of trails and tribulations throughout her journey living in the public eye.
The 25-year-old Disney star turned pop icon opened up about her struggle with addiction, road to recovery and embracing her sexuality in her candid new documentary, Simply Complicated.
She became addicted to drugs as a teenager.
“My first time doing coke, I was 17 working on Disney Channel, and I was with a couple of friends and they introduced me to it. I was scared because my mom always told me that your heart could just burst if you do it. But I did it anyways and I loved it,” Lovato confessed. “I felt out of control with the coke the first time that I did it.”
The Grammy nominee revealed that her estranged father had a similar experience with drugs: “My dad was an addict and an alcoholic and I guess I always searched for what he found in drugs and alcohol because it fulfilled him and he chose that over a family.”
She struggles with her body image and has an eating disorder.
“I would bake cookies for my family and I would eat all of them and nobody would have any to eat. That was my first memory of food being that medicine for me. Food is still the biggest challenge in my life and it controls — I don’t want to give it the power to say it controls my every thought, but it’s something that I’m constantly thinking about,” Lovato disclosed. “Body image, what I’m going to eat next, what I wish I could be eating, what I wish I didn’t eat. It’s just constant. Like I get envious toward people that don’t struggle with an eating disorder just because I feel like my life would be so much easier.”
She dates both men and women.
Love is love! “I am on a dating app with both guys and girls. I am open to human connection, so whether that’s through a male or a female, that doesn’t matter to me,” Lovato explained.
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