Half Lovato: an alleged overdose follows a long battle to stay sober

"The last time I did an interview, I was cocaine."

The first minute of the official documentary of Demi Lovato, released last October, clearly shows that the singer has no problem

The previous interview to which she refers was about another documentary – Stay Strong of 2012 – in which she spoke of her "daily battle" with eating disorders, self harm and mental health issues, as well as addiction

. had "Stay" tattooed on one wrist and "Strong" on the other. She seemed to hold the demons at bay

She insisted that she was cleansed little of time after making this movie.

However, a month ago, fans discovered that she had relapsed when she revealed in a new song: "I'm no longer sober."

So her apparent overdose on Tuesday is a heartbreaking twist for the 25-year-old girl and everyone who followed her on her tough journey from Disney star to troubled pop icon.

The pressures of being a teen star, a dysfunctional relationship with his father and intimidation all contributed to the problems that threatened to lead to various points in his life. career, these documentaries revealed.

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His food problems and suicidal thoughts began even before his big break on the TV show Barney & Friends at the age of 10. at the age of 12, children in his clbad signed a petition encouraging him to kill his elf.

Pressures were exacerbated when she discovered celebrity at Disney Channel and at Sonny with a Chance before launching a pop career

"I felt the pressure rise when celebrity began her career. To infiltrate my life, "she said in the latest documentary. "I started to feel the pressure to look in a certain way, to sing music that people would rather than sing the music I would like."

"There was more pressure to succeed … I was a perfectionist and I really wanted to be the best of the best.He did not give up at all.He just climbed more and more. "

She first tried cocaine at the age of 17 when she was working on Disney Channel. "I felt out of control with the Coke the first time," she says.

"My father was an addict and an alcoholic and I guess I was always looking for what he found in drugs and alcohol because he was filling it up.

The first public admission that something was wrong happened in 2010 when she left the Camp Rock 2 tour with the Jonas Brothers and went to rehab for what was described in As "emotional and physical". The problem occurred when she and her dancers destroyed their hotel one night after drinking and smoked the grbad.

Lovato was also taking Adderall, a prescription addictive stimulant – and she punched a dancer who told her parents and her manager that she was using the drug.

"I lived fast and I was going to die young," she said in 2016. "I did not think I would be 21 years old. . "

After verifying the treatment, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder

. When she came out, she continued to take drugs such as cocaine and Xanax. "I was not working on my program," she said. "I was not ready to become sober.

"I snuck into the airplanes, I slipped into the toilet, I sneaked all night – no one knew … I wanted drugs or drugs …"

In the documentary, she revealed that she would even commit anti-doping tests by handing out the urine of other people and that once, she was hospitalized after a suicide attempt

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When she was a judge on the US X Factor in 2012 and in 2013, viewers did not know that she was living in a "sober apartment" – a place to live and get to. help to recover. She had roommates, no phone, and had to do chores.

This sobriety lasted six years, she says. In her documentary, she revealed that, although she stayed away from drugs and alcohol, she never managed to "completely conquer" her bulimia.

She said, "Food remains the biggest challenge of my life, I do not want to give it the power to say that it controls all my thoughts, but it's something I think constantly.

"The body image, what I will eat next, what I would like to be eating, what I would like not to eat. It's just constant. I am envious of people who do not suffer from a eating disorder just because I have the impression that my life would be so much easier. "

Fans believed that her life was going in the right direction – until June 2018, when she posted the song Sober.

She sang: " Mom, I'm sorry, I'm no longer sober / And daddy, please, forgive me the drinks that have spilled on the floor / For those who have never left / We've already gone down this road / I'm sorry, I'm no longer sober

Two weeks ago, she had canceled two concerts of her tour in the UK [19659007] The 2017 documentary was completed on an optimistic note, with its transformation at that time described as "a miracle."

titled Simply Complicated, and the fans who knew it know that her story is rarely simple.

But they hope that she will be able to return to a point where she will be able to live with her demons, even if taming them has revealed painful.

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