Demi Lovato, a singer and actress, has admitted she first experimented with opiates when she was just 12 years old.
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 claimed to have maintained her 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 suffering a heart attack and three strokes while hospitalized.
On August 23rd, she stated on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
I first engaged in experimentation when I was 12 or 13. After I was involved in an automobile accident, they gave me opiates.
“I was involved in a vehicle accident, and they gave me opiates.” My mother had no idea that she would have to keep the drugs away from her 13-year-old daughter, but I had already started drinking.
“I had been harassed and was trying to get away.”
On her path to sobriety, Demi recently stated on Boston’s Mix 104.1 that she “rarely thinks about substances.”
The performer claimed that “everyone in her immediate vicinity wanted me to be sober.” And I doubt that I desired it.
“I tried doing this and just smoking marijuana…” Moreover, I’ve now realized that none of it applies to me. My life has been changed by accepting…
I really don’t think about drugs very often, which is a great thing and something I never thought would happen to me. I’m so content with my life as it is.
Demi responded that she smoked marijuana and drank alcohol “in moderation” when asked by a producer of the 2021 YouTube documentary Dancing With the Devil whether she was “totally sober.”
She claimed it was difficult for her to accept the possibility that she could never again be able to “get some solace” from drugs.
She said, “I’ve found that closing the door on things only makes me want to open the door more.”
I’ve discovered that telling myself, “I’m never going to do this again,” doesn’t help me.
I’ve had a lot of trouble with this. I am aware that I have finished doing the things that will kill me. But I do hope I could find some relief—possibly from cannabis or another substance.
