Demi Lovato Admits To Doing Cocaine, Right There On The Plane, In First Class.
It’s no secret that Demi Lovato has used quite a few recreational drugs in her time, in fact the singer and X Factor judge has made it a point to be completely honest about her wilder years. In a candid interview with Access Hollywood the recovered former Disney starlet (we’re not saying that there’s some pattern here, but you know) opened up about her addiction and eating disorder.
“I’m very, very good at manipulating people and that was something that I did in my disease, I would manipulate everyone around me. There were times I would just continue to lie, so that everything looked OK on the outside,” she told AH’s Kit Hoover.
You wouldn’t know it from her innocent appearance during the Disney years, but Lovato admitted to some very unpleasant details.
“Something I’ve never talked about before, but with my drug use I could hide it to where I would sneak drugs. I couldn’t go without 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine and I would bring it on airplanes,” she revealed. “I would smuggle it basically and just wait until everyone in first class would go to sleep and I would do it right there. I’d sneak to the bathroom and I’d do it.”
Read on about Lovato's revealing interview on the next page.
Demi says she had a “sober companion” living with her and keeping tabs on her at all times. The singer recalls that she would have to sneak out and lie her way out of supervision during that dark period in her life. But the worst was yet to come for the young woman, only 19 at the time. “I was going to the airport and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with vodka and it was just nine in the morning and I was throwing up in the car and this was just to get on a plane to go back to LA to the sober living house that I was staying at…I had all the help in the world, but I didn’t want it,” she said looking back. “When I hit that moment I was like, it’s no longer fun when you’re doing it alone.”
In the full interview, Lovato also goes on to talk about her eating disorder, which the starlet admits to having from a very early age. The details get rather gory, but Demi explains that her worst point coincided with her slip into addiction. In 2010, Lovato entered rehab, which helped her overcome the addiction and start her ED recovery, as well as reconnect with her mother Dianna.
“I had issues I needed to work on as well because I wasn’t setting a good example for her,” Dianna revealed to Access Hollywood. “I had a terrible eating disorder that I had for many, many years and I didn’t realize it and I had to face up to the fact that I was suffering as well. And a lot of what [Demi] went through with an eating disorder had to do with what she had seen growing up and I also had severe depression and I ended up asking for help actually they did an intervention with me and said, ‘Mom, you need to get help.”
In the end, both emerged from their treatments into full recovery, making this one of the rare celebrity success stories.