An alleged overdose follows a long battle to stay sober – Nehanda Radio

The previous interview to what she's referring to was for another documentary – Stay Strong of 2012 in which she was talking about her "daily battle" with eating disorders, self-harm and mental health problems as an addiction.

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

She insisted that she was clean shortly after making this movie. [19659003] However, a month ago, fans discovered that she had relapsed when she revealed in a new song:

So, her seeming overdose on Tuesday is a torn twist ante for the 25 year old girl and all those who had followed her in her difficult journey from the Disney star to the troubled pop icon.

The pressures of being a teenage star, a dysfunctional relationship with his father, and intimidation all contributed to the problems that threatened to entail him at various times in his career, revealed these documentaries.

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The singer recounted that her food problems and her suicidal thoughts had begun even before her big break in the night. TV show Barney & Friends at the age of 10 years

. 12 years old, children in her class signed a petition encouraging her to

The pressures were exacerbated when she found her fame at Disney Channel and Sonny with a Chance before launching a pop career.

"I felt the pressure increase when fame began to creep into my life," she said in the latest documentary. "I was beginning to feel pressure to look in a certain way, to sing music that people would rather than sing the music I want

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

She first tried cocaine at the age of 17 when she was working on the 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 confession 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 at the time as " emotional and physical. "The problem occurred when she and her supportive dancers ransacked their hotel one night after drinking and smoked the herb.

Lovato was also taking Adderall, an addictive prescription stimulant – and she punched a dancer who told her parents and her manager that she used drugs.

"I lived fast and I was going to die young," she said in 2016. "I did not expect to get to 21. "

After checking into treatment, she was diagno

When she went out, she continued to use drugs like cocaine and Xanax." I was not working my program, "she said. I was not ready to become sober

"I was sneaking into the airplanes, I was sneaking into the bathrooms, I did not know … I was afraid of drugs or drugs … I was not easy to work "

In the documentary, she revealed that she would have even simulated drug testing by handing out the urine of other people and that Once, she had been taken to the hospital after a suicide attempt

. She made a concerted effort to purify herself.

When she was a judge at the US X Factor in In 2012 and 2013, viewers did not know that she was living in a "sober apartment" – a place to live and get help. 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 want to give it the power to say that it controls all my thoughts, but it's something I constantly think about.

"The body image, what I will eat next, what I would like to eat, what I would like not to eat.It's just constant.I become jealous of people who are not at taken with a eating disorder simply because I have the impression that my life would be so much easier. "

The fans believed that his life was going in the right direction – up to 39 years ago. in June 2018 Song Sober.

She sang: " Mom, I'm so sorry, I'm no longer sober / And daddy, please forgive me the drinks spilled on the floor / To those who have never left me / We have been in this way before / I am so sorry, I am no longer sober . "

Two weeks earlier, she canceled two shows from her UK tour.

The documentary ended on a predictably optimistic note, with its transformation at that time described as" a miracle. "[19659004ThedocumentarywastitledSimplyComplicatedandfanswhohavealreadyknownitsstoryisrarelysimple[19659006Buttheyhopeitwillcometoapointwhereitwillcomealivewithitsdemonsasitstamingisapainfulexperience BBC