Good Lifestyle

With the release of his new album,Demi Lovato Feels more comfortable with her music and with herself than ever, but it was a long road to get here. After starting as achild-star, Lovato fought against drug addiction and alcohol, a diet and self -control. In 2018, the singer underwent an overdose of drugs that almost killed them. (Lovato is non -binary and uses both it and they pronounces.)

In a new interview with Apple Music 1,Lovato looks at everything on She went through and how she transformed it into whom she is today. This includes the moments when, in adolescence, the people with whom they worked tried to "force" them to behave and to appear in a way that did not line up with their true self. Read the rest to see what Lovato had to say.

Read this then:The old teenage idol says that she "lived a double life".

Inthe interview, Lovato explained that their first two albums, which released at the age of 16 and 17, were more in line with the music inspired by the rock they love and do today. But, starting with the third album, they wanted to make "radio songs" and at that time, they said: "I started to lose myself as well as an artist."

"This did not reflect what was in me," said Lovato. "I would go on stage and I would be in these leotards and these Stiletto shoes in which I was miserable. And I danced, I did choreography and things like that and I was simply not happy. I think it completely led me to get lost to find myself. "

Lovato said that not only was she trying to find herself, but also, at the same time, the people around her were trying to do something that she was not.

"The team around me dictated my decisions and tried to influence the management I was going to," said the 29 -year -old singer in the interview. "It was not even as if I did not know who I was and that this team followed me. It was like, I did not know who I was, and I had a team that tried to force myself in One direction to be this hyper-feminine pop star. And I was so unhappy to do that. "AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

For more information on celebrities delivered directly in your reception box,Register for our daily newsletter.

In an interview in 2020 withEllen Degeneres, Lovato explained that his previous teamwas very controlling, especially with regard to his diet. "If I were in my hotel room at night, they would remove the phone from the hotel room so that I cannot call the room service," said the singer "I Love Me". "Or if there were fruit in my room, they would remove it because it is additional sugar." She also said that they would check what she had ordered at Starbucks on her bank statements.

"It led me to be really unhappy," she said. "My bulimia became really bad. I asked for help and I did not receive the help I needed. And so I was stuck in this unfortunate position, and here I am sober and I Thinks of me: 'I am six years sober, but I am miserable. I am even more miserable than me when I drank. Why am I sober? I sent a message and I contacted the people who were part of my team, and they answered with it: "You are very selfish. It would ruin things not only for you but also for us too. "

Lovato said that these people who were shooting him raised problems with childhood abandonment. "When they left, they completely played on this fear and I felt completely abandoned," she said. It was at this time that Lovato relapsed and, three months later, she overdosed.

In his interview on Apple Music 1 radio, Lovato said they would say to their youngest me now: "" You are beautiful. You don't need to lose weight. You don't need to judge yourself so hard. "But I could not have been able to understand these words at that time anyway. I was just in a position where everything I did was under the microscope, and therefore found myself was also at microscope. "

Lovato added: "If I had children and they came to see me and said:" Mom, I want to be in the industry ", I must say:" Please wait until you are 18 years old. Give yourself a childhood. '"