Demi Lovato has spoken candidly about her experience with addiction, admitting they started “experimenting” around the ages of 12 and 13.
The singer, 30, who recently revealed they would be using she/her as well as they/them pronouns has been open about her experiences in the past, including a near-fatal overdose.
In 2018, Demi suffered three strokes and a heart attack which left her with brain damage following a devastating overdose.
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She was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after being discovered unresponsive at her home in the Hollywood Hills area.
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Now, the Really Don’t Care hitmaker has shed light on when her journey with drugs began on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
Demi said: “I started experimenting for the first time when I was 12, or 13.
“I got into a car accident and they prescribed me opiates.”
The former X Factor USA judge went on to explain that her mum “didn’t think she would have to lock up the opiates from her 13-year-old daughter.”
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Demi continued: “I was already drinking at that point, I had been bullied and was looking for an escape.”
She recalled turning to alcohol, admitting she was “alone” when she took her first sip after stealing booze from her step-dad’s fridge.
Years after her first brush with addiction, Demi tried harder drugs for the first time which put her on a dangerous path, explaining: “At 17, it was the first time I tried coke.
“I like, loved it too much and then kinda bled into me going to treatment right after I turned 18.”
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In the past, the singer said they couldn’t “go 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine” adding they would “bring it on airplanes”.
Demi added: “I would smuggle it basically and just wait until everyone in first class would go to sleep, and I would do it right there.”
In recent months, the singer has said she “rarely thinks about substances” and has gone “sober sober” rather than “California sober” which sees users replace substances with cannabis.
Speaking about her ordeal in 2018 which saw her overdose on heroin laced with fentanyl, she said: “I had crossed a line that I had never crossed before… I snapped. I had three strokes.
“I had a heart attack, my doctors said that I had five to 10 more minutes [to live].”
She was also left with blind spots on her vision, meaning she can’t drive a car.
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