Singer and actress Demi Lovato has disclosed that when she was just 12 years old, she began experimenting with opiates.
When she was younger, Lovato, 30, said she turned to alcohol and drugs because she had been bullied and was “searching for an escape.”
She admitted that throughout her teenage years, she frequently stole booze from her stepfather before switching to cocaine when she was 17 because she “liked it too much.”
Demi Lovato claimed to have maintained sobriety for six years, from the time she was 20 to the time she was 26,
but in 2018 she overdosed dangerously, leaving her legally blind and brain damaged
after also suffering a heart attack and three strokes while hospitalized.
She said on the Call Her Daddy podcast on Tuesday, August 23,
‘I started experimenting for the first time when I was 12, or 13. Then I got into a car accident and they prescribed me opiates.
‘I got into a car accident and they prescribed me opiates.
My mom didn’t think she would have to lock up the opiates from her 13-year-old daughter
but I was already drinking at that point.
‘I had been bullied and was looking for an escape.’
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The former Disney star acknowledged that she would drink “alone” and steal beer from her stepfather’s refrigerator,
which “should have been a massive red flag.”
She then moved on to cocaine, adding:
‘At 17, it was the first time I tried coke and, like, loved it too much and then kinda bled into me going to treatment right after I turned 18.’
Meanwhile Recall that the singer recently reverted back to being addressed as She/her,
after coming out as Non Binary over a year ago
Demi Lovato explained:
“I’ve actually adopted the pronouns of she/her again with me. So for me, I’m such a fluid person that I don’t really and I don’t find that I am… I felt like, especially last year, my energy was balanced and my masculine and feminine energy so that when I was faced with the choice of walking into a bathroom and it said, women and men, I didn’t feel like there was a bathroom for me because I didn’t feel necessarily like a woman.
“I didn’t feel like a man. I just felt like a human. And that’s what they/them is about. For me, it’s just about like feeling human at your core.
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