Taking to her instagram page she said “I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction, “What I’ve learned is that this illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome and have not done yet.”
Lovato has long been open about her struggles with sobriety, an eating disorder and being bipolar.
What Demi Lovato has said about sobriety and mental health
She has said she first tried cocaine as a 17-year-old Disney star and “loved it.”
Lovato told Access Hollywood in 2013 that she had a moment of reckoning when she was 19.
“I was going to the airport and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with vodka. It was just nine in the morning, and I was throwing up in the car, and this was just to get on a plane to go back to L.A. to the sober living house that I was staying at,” Lovato said. “I had all the help in the world, but I didn’t want it.”
In June, Lovato shared that she had relapsed and released the single “Sober.”
“I’m sorry for the fans I lost who watched me fall again,” Lovato sings in the song. “I want to be a role model but I’m only human.”
The lyrics also include Lovato singing, “I’m sorry that I’m here again. I promise I’ll get help.”
She tweeted a video of her emotional performance of the song in Lisbon, Portugal.
It hasn’t been publicly disclosed which drug or drugs may have been involved.
In her Instagram statement, Lovato thanks God, her fans, family and “team,” and the staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Lovato is a professing Christian. In an early November 2013 interview with Latina magazine, she said that she finds spirituality to be an important part of maintaining balance in life. She said: “I’m the closest I’ve ever been with God. I have my own relationship with God and that’s all that matters”
Lovato is an active supporter of gay rights. When the Defense of Marriage Act was struck down in June 2013, she tweeted: “Gay, straight, lesbian, bi. … No one is better than any one else. What an incredible day for California AND for equality.” Lovato later said: “I believe in gay marriage, I believe in equality. I think there’s a lot of hypocrisy with religion. But I just found that you can have your own relationship with God, and I still have a lot of faith.”
On December 23, 2011, Lovato posted a message on Twitter criticizing her former network for airing episodes of Shake It Up and So Random! in which characters joked about eating disorders. Disney Channel publicity officials quickly took action, apologizing to Lovato and removing the episodes from the network’s broadcast and video on demandsources after additional criticism (following Lovato’s post) on the network’s public-relations account.
Lovato identifies as a feminist.
Lovato spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia about raising awareness for mental health, and also performed at the March for Our Lives anti-gun violence rally in Washington, D.C. in March 2018