Monday, April 23, 2012

Demi Lovato Finally Admits Drug Abuse


Despite the blind item I ran here so very long ago and the tabloid reports following up on the blinds, Demi Lovato has never admitted to drug abuse until now. In an interview with Fabulous Magazine, Demi admits to taking lots of coke that was given to her by promoters and people she thought were her friends. She says she doesn't like to talk about it because of all her young fans. See, this is the part I don't understand. For a year now she has been saying that she only went to rehab for cutting and bulimia. Nothing else. She could have used this year to tell her fans about the dangers of drugs and what they can do to you and how Demi overcame those things too. Instead she let that opportunity go to waste and everyone knew she was not being honest so it made you wonder if she was being honest with herself.

Demi says that when the drugs didn't work is when she would start cutting and that she could have died from the combination of drugs and cutting. Whatever the reason for doing so, I'm glad she finally opened up about the experience and hopefully it will give her even more to discuss and talk about with her fans.

32 comments:

Kelli said...

Hopefully she can set an example..

BTW, Enty, your blind item re: the Situation & Bethanny Frankel was on WPLJ this morning...

Lauren said...

One of the most honest celeb interviews ever. Go Demi!

Barton Fink said...

As I've said before about her, I have no personal investment in her struggle with fame and I just can't care about her success in life. I want all people with problems to solve those problems, sure, but there is something hard and mean and small about this person's meager talent and minimal artistry. Lovato is where the star-making machinery shows its work too nakedly, and it's hard not to see that she's just a talentless narcissist who (1))wants fame and money and hungers and lusts for attentions and (2) can't handle it in the slightest, the setbacks, the difficulties, the temptations. Thus, all I can say about her is "get well and clean up your house, girl," but the only thing she is famous for at this point is the fakeness of her cover story. "I missed a few meals, so I had to be sent to a small set of discussions about my meal-skipping, you know, because those two or three lunches I didn't have were causing huge problems, you know." Whatevs!

Barton Fink said...

Ugh, my comment looks so negative. But she just doesn't sit well with me, and even this newfound openness has a fake part to it. No one does a ton of coke against their will because of other people and without a desire to do a ton of coke. The drugs stimulate the pleasure center and become an object of desire. The drug user wants to use the cocaine, and while druggy friends are often a part of the cycle of a person's descent into drugginess, they are not a cause or an explanation. A person's inner demons fuels a cutting and cocaine and bulimia pattern. Whatever happened to Lovato, she doesn't have the strength for the career her parents and her lust for fame have dragged her into.

CantHaveMyPurse said...

um, I keep seeing this chick in gossip columns, but I just don't care. At all. She doesn't rile up my hate the way Lohan does.

Bland girl is bland.

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Sarah said...

I don't have any particular interest in her, but I truly hope she gets well. I have a feeling there are a lot of demons she's still fighting. My kids grew up watching her shows.

timebob said...

I think she was smart about it or people were smart around her to let things out a bit at a time. People are more forgiving with woman and eating/cutting disorders than they are with coke problems. So she eased her way into admitting her problems. Which is her right to admit to when she is ready. I see Enty's point but it isn't easy to flog all your personal problems out to the media universe. She is just a girl.

Just the fact she got pedobear Wilmer V. out of her life is a huge step in the right direction.

Tempestuous Grape said...

19 year old girl is 19.

Honeykatt said...

You can't judge an eating disorder by looks, she didn't just miss a meal or two, she was puking up to 6x a day. That plus all the coke and drinking and sex, ANY progress she has made since then is just that, PROGRESS. I would bet she didn't get into the drug discussions before bc she was still doing them. Probably still. I wish I could talk some sense into these underprepared and over-stimulated girls. I am just hoping she gets better bc my daughter loves her. It was a pretty deep discussion trying to explain why Demi wasn't going to be on her tv show anymore.

Lori said...

she is a teenager..cut the girl some slack.

dia papaya said...

I have no idea who this poor girl is. Glad she is getting help. The more people talk about their demons the better it is for all of us, esp the over-stimulated youth of today.

@Barton Fink - I know what you were trying to say. Apparently, the overly dramatic Monday blues are contagious. Is it too early for a cocktail? Surely there is a Shit Monday cocktail out there.

RenoBlondee said...

She also grates on my nerves.

chopchop said...

What I'm worried about is her little sister, Madison de la Garza. If you don't know who she is, she plays Eva Longoria's overweight daughter on Desperate Housewives. So here's this little girl (as in, under 10) with a drug addict for an older sister, a mom who obviously doesn't parent too closely (see drug addict teen girl above) and who also pushes her children into Hollywood. Add all that on top of playing "the fat kid" in scenes where adults use her weight problem for laughs and I foresee some big big troubles in her future. :-(

Anonymous said...

Too little, too late, and your still a huge fake!

Popcorn Sutton said...

I really hope it doesn't give her more to talk about her fans. I'm under the impression that her fans are about ten years old and I don't think they would really understand the motives behind an announcement of this nature like an adult would.

nettalovesrobin said...

I dont feel that its a celebrities obligation to put all of there problems out in public. If they want to then maybe it should come out. I have no idea who she is but her young fans dont need to know everything. Not everyone wants to be a poster child for drug drug abuse, plus why take that title away from Lindsay.

sbalb said...

Your kids grew up watching her shows???? My oldest is 7, and she was watching the Disney Channel long before Demi's pouty mug first appeared on it. To the best of my knowledge she had a show, singular (that "Sunny" one that they pulled her off of as soon as her problems first surfaced publicly), on Disney and a couple of Disney movies. We're not talking about a long and storied career here. Now she's mostly just famous for her "singing" and her problems.

Angie said...

Enty, I am cranky with your comments today. Ms. Lovato can choose anytime she wishes to air her dirty laundry. It's not easy to admit drug use to your young fans. I'm sure she struggled with divulging this information for some time. Lighten up today.

xoApril said...

She truly doesn't owe any of us an explanation for her stint in rehab. Considering her history of cutting and binging, she has been fighting those demons long before the drugs. The drugs now just became convenience and a new vice. Good for her.

weezy said...

Enty, maybe this interview marks two big milestones: she's come out about her specific and deadly drug use -- and she's stopped following her handlers' orders. That second one's actually the big one here. And her boyfriends' (Wasn't Wilmer Valderrama enabling/encouraging her substance abuse?)

littlejenny said...

@barton fink "talentless" ?????? baaaahahahahahaha!!! ARE YOU INSANE? have you ever even heard the girl sing? obviously not...

littlejenny said...

@barton fink "talentless" ?????? baaaahahahahahaha!!! ARE YOU INSANE? have you ever even heard the girl sing? obviously not...

dazed said...

No thoughts on Demi, but her little sister has a tough road ahead of her, hope she comes out alright

AKM said...

Yeah, I'm with littlejenny. Demi is NOT talentless. She has a wonderful voice, and she's very funny. I used to watch "Sonny With a Chance," even though I thought it was the cheesiest of all the Mouse's shows -- see what I did there? -- because I just thought she was so talented. I hope she gets her life on track because she could do really great things in the future.

GSDlover said...

At least she came clean about her troubles, that's more than most others have done.

Barton Fink said...

@littlejenny,
No, sadly, I and almost seven billion people on this planet share one quality: we have never heard her sing. My basic point is that she's beating her head against a wall and losing it over a career that isn't ever going to amount to much. That's why watching her eyes dart around nervously is so uncomfortable most of the time, for me.

littlejenny said...

@ Barton Fink

well, it's about time to get hip:

http://youtu.be/hmW_URKdFCM

Betty K said...

what with this..." Whatever the reason for doing so, I'm glad she finally opened up about the experience and hopefutelly it will give her even more to discuss and talk about with her fans."

since when is horrible warning instructive to teens? or adults for that matter.

maybe she didnt want to say anything because it was impotant for her and didnt want to fail in public.

maybe she wanted to get off her dealers radar. they come at you hard when you're weak.

Harry Bowles said...

Maybe back then she wasnt ready to reveal to the world that she was addicted to drugs.

I think its one thing to admit that you cut yourself or you starve or puke your food and to reveal to the world that you did a bunch of coke.

Poisonfawn said...

whatever the reason for doing so? project monarch demi lovato cutting programming bulimia DID evil disney pedophilia list goes on and on research

Laura M said...

Enty, I truly agree with you BUT, remember she is very young and it's very embarassing to admitting on doing drugs specially when you're a role model. I think it's great she's come clean and promoting awareness how badly things can get when they seem so good. I wish her the best.

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