Demi Lovato says that "raw" relations with older men concerned "daddy's problems"

"It's simply unhealthy and toxic," said the singer about older men at a young age.


While expressing excitement about its current "healthy" relationship, Demi Lovato Looked back on her past relationships, including some with older men, whom she described as "coarse". Lovato appeared on The Howard Stern show On Monday, September 11, where they talked about their love life - the step and the present - and shared that the "dad problems" led them to go out with older men. With hindsight, Lovato sees the relationships differently from what she was doing at the time.

Today, Lovato comes out with a person close to her age, and even if she has shared that gaps in relationships are good, she thinks that age gaps are "unhealthy and toxic" if a person in the relationship is still very young. Read the rest to see what the singer "I Love Me" had to say about their past meetings.

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Lovato says that going out with older men concerned the "dad problems".

As indicated by Insider, in the interview with Howard Stern , Lovato said: "I think what I experienced was that I had a phase to go out with older men and go out with older guys. I crossed a phase where I was attracted to older guys because of my dad problems, of course. "

Lovato talked about their tense relationship with their father, Patrick Lovato , over the years, in particular by speaking of their feelings concerning his death of 2013.

"I was very conflict when he died because he was violent," said Lovato in a 2015 YouTube video (via Entertainment tonight ). "He was mean, but he wanted to be a good person."

She said her father suffered from mental health problems. "Knowing that it was not fully his fault was really sad for me," she shared.

In 2020, Lovato talked about his father in a test for Vogue . They wrote that the anniversary of Patrick's death is a "really difficult period for me" and continued ", but this year, something happened. I wrote a letter of gratitude to him, thanking him for all The things that I obtained from him. It was this beautiful version of all the feelings I had towards him. I realized, for the first time, that I was not going to have dad problems for the rest of my life. "

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Lovato called relations with older "coarse" men.

Demi Lovato at the Stella McCartney X Adidas Party in February 2023
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In the Howard Stern Interview, Lovato noted that age gaps are well, according to the ages of the two people involved, but explained that she was a teenager during some of her relationships. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"For me, I was a teenager," they said. "And so for me, it's disgusting. If you have 50 and 60 with someone who is older than you. It's just unhealthy and toxic."

They added: "I can say with confidence that my dad problems are no longer in me. And I think there are a few signs of that. I am with a partner that is my age, essentially. I look back On the past and think: "It's disgusting." "

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Lovato went out with an older man for six years.

Wilmer Valderrama and Demi Lovato at the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
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Lovato's most notable and most public relationship with an older man was with This 70s show actor Wilmer Valderrama . When they met, Lovato was 17 years old and Valderrama was 29. as indicated by US Weekly , in its 2017 documentary Simply complicated ,, Lovato said she and Valderrama waited for her to be 18 to start going out together.

"When I met him and put my eyes for the first time, I was in the hair and makeup and he came and I sat down and I said to myself" I like this man "and "I must have it", "they recalled to have met the actor during the shooting of a PSA on the 2010 census." But I was only 17 years old, so he said to me: "Longfully of me. "After being 18, we started going out together."

More recently, Lovato released their song "29" which, according to many, concerns their relationship with Valderrama, although they have never confirmed it. The lyrics include "the figures told you not to do it, but that didn't stop you" and, "finally 29 / funny, as you were at the time / thought it was a dream of As a teenager, just a fantasy / But was it yours or was it me? "

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Today, Lovato comes out with someone his age.

Jutes and Demi Lovato at Operation Smile's 11th annual Celebrity Ski & Smile Challenge in 2023
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In the Howard Stern Interview, Lovato talked about her current relationship with the musician Junities , with whom she has been going out publicly since August 2022. She said they met by working in a music studio together.

"Now I am in a place where I am in an incredible relationship and my boyfriend is a year older than me," said the 31 -year -old. "We grow up together and it's so healthy."

Stern asked Lovato if they think they would marry juts. "Yeah, I think yes," they said. "We talked about it."

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