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Actress-singer Demi Lovato recently opened up about the emotional and physical abuse she\u2019s endured in the entertainment industry, from her days as a child star to incidents that led her to rehab, reports Variety.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old singer sat down with the podcast \u2018Call Her Daddy\u2019 to reflect on her career, sharing some of the darker incidents she\u2019s faced, like the time an unnamed member on her team told her she wasn\u2019t \u201csick enough\u201d to seek treatment after she explained that she was \u201cthrowing up blood\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that was his way of saying, \u2018No, you\u2019re not going back to treatment because if you do, this will look bad on me,\u201d Lovato recalled about the interaction back in 2017, quoted Variety. Less than a year later, she \u201cended up overdosing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch video:<\/strong><\/p>\n According to Variety, at the age of 13, Lovato started experimenting with drugs after being prescribed opiates for injuries she sustained in a car accident.<\/p>\n \u201cMy mom didn\u2019t think she\u2019d have to lock up the opiates from her 13-year-old daughter, but I was already drinking at that point,\u201d Lovato explained. <\/p>\n \u201cI had been bullied (and) was looking for an escape and when my mom saw how many of the pills had disappeared and how fast they did, she took them away (and) locked them up.\u201d<\/p>\n For the next few years, Lovato shared that she would still \u201cget certain kinds of pills\u201d when she was 15 or 16 years old, including stealing her mom\u2019s Xanax.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was off and on. Then at 17 is when it kind of was the first time, like, I tried coke and loved it too much,\u201d she continued, recalling the period following the release of her Disney Channel original movie \u2018Camp Rock\u2019. <\/p>\n \u201cThat kind of bled into me going to treatment right after I turned 18.\u201d<\/p>\n Variety adds that Lovato later discussed the return of her eating disorder between 2016 and 2018. <\/p>\n \u201cThere was one time where I had binged and purged one night. I came clean to my team and said, \u2018Hey, this happened\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Lovato, she snuck out of her hotel room that night because her management would remove the phones so she couldn\u2019t call room service.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t have food in my hotel room, like snacks in the mini bar, because they didn\u2019t want me to eat the snacks,\u201d Lovato said, sharing that her team later trapped her in her hotel room by barricading the door with furniture. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was that level of control when it came to my food, which just made my eating disorder worse,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n