LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 30: Singer Demi Lovato attends the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on August 30, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Demi Lovato revealed her struggles with drug addiction and food in her YouTube documentary Simply Complicated.
Lovato was 18 when she first went to rehab to get help for her addictions. Ultimately, though, that trip was unsuccessful. “I wasn’t working my program, I wasn’t ready to get sober,” she explained.”There was one night when I used a bunch of coke and I popped a few Xanax bars, and I began to choke a little bit. My heart started racing, and I thought to myself, ‘Oh my God, I might be overdosing right now.'”
The singer hid her problems from the public, and even put on the ruse that she had conquered her substance abuse problems to her fans. She even admits to faking drug tests by submitting other people’s urine. She was eventually put into a psychiatric facility, but it wasn’t until her team gave her an ultimatum that she decided to get clean.
They told her they would leave her if she didn’t get sober, and she took that to heart. Lovato, now 25, recently celebrated her five-year sober anniversary and said on The Jonathan Ross Show that she didn’t really hit rock bottom until her family said they’d leave. “It’s embarrassing to look back on the person that I was,” she admits.
Lovato was also diagnosed wit bipolar disorder while she was getting treatment for the first time in 2010, and she thinks that could explain some of her past behavior.
In the over hour-long doc, the singer explains that she doesn’t identify as straight, and uses a dating app that features both men and women. “I am open to human connection, so whether that’s through a male or female, it doesn’t matter to me,” she said.
Watch the whole documentary below.
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