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.”
Lovato recalls hitting rock bottom at the young age of 19.
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.
Lovato is using the experience to help others.
“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.
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