Demi Lovato regrets documenting her life. Image Source: Hello Giggles
Demi Lovato has some regrets.
In a recent interview with Alternative Press, singer-songwriter Demi Lovato discussed how she feels about sharing events, experiences, and recovery journeys from her life with the public through her films, Stay Strong (2012), Simply Complicated (2017), and Dancing with the Devil (2021).
While promoting her latest album, ‘Holy Fvck’, Demi Lovato shared that she was not sober in some of the documentaries that were filmed and added that she is sick of watching herself and she thinks that other people are probably sick of watching her too, and if they are not, they can watch her music videos.
Demi Lovato, who documented her process and what she went through during her fatal overdose back in 2018 during which she suffered a heart attack, multiple stokes and brain damage in her 2021 documentary ‘Dancing with the Devil’, mentioned during the interview that she wished that she had waited until she had her shit together before documenting things because now everything is cemented. On her current status with substances, Demi Lovato said that being sober is what works for her, nothing else.
Dancing with the Devil documented Demi Lovato's attempt at being "California sober," during which she was smoking weed and drinking in moderation and this began in March 2021 and ended in December of the same year with another stint in a treatment center. Demi's major medical concerns and subsequent recovery process are both covered in the ultra-raw documentary. She was raped when she was a teenager, among other grave life tragedies that were discussed in the series.
Although she presently has no interest in producing another documentary, Demi said during the interview that she still desires to keep telling her narrative to her audience in whichever form she sees appropriate, which may include an interview or a book. Following 2013's Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year, a collection of inspirational self-help affirmations, Demi Lovato will probably release her second book as an author, which will be a memoir. Nothing has been confirmed as of now.
Speaking more about the Dancing with the Devil documentary, Demi Lovato said that she does not relate to Dancing with the Devil... She had The Art of Starting Over mentality because she was California Sober at the time, which followed the psychedelic elements in the music’s production. She stated that she is proud of her previous album, but it did not feel like her, and that she wanted to release music that she would enjoy while on tour, which cannot be said of her previous album.
While making her previous album, she was California Sober, which means she was smoking weed and drinking in a moderate condition but was not focused, whereas Holy Fvck is more crafted with live performances at the forefront of her mind and she has been sober sober. She continued that she wanted to perform music that feels genuine and authentic to her and that reflects where she is today in her life and what she has been listening to, as she is in a new chapter of her life and her music should reflect exactly that.
The singer had recently opened up about her first experience with drugs and alcohol, along with being bullied in the industry. She said that she started experimenting with drugs at the age of 13 when she was prescribed opiates by a medical professional after a car accident, and by the time she was 15, she was taking certain kinds of pills, including her mother’s Xanax. When Demi turned 17, she was addicted to cocaine and entered a medical treatment program at the age of 18. She mentioned that she was bullied as a teenager and she was looking for an escape when she experimented with pills and later drugs and she loved the feeling of it. She also revealed that she sneaked some beers from her step-father only to know how does it feel to be drunk which she said is a red flag now.
The singer, during her interview on the Call Me Daddy podcast, also discussed the return of her eating disorder, which started at the same time Demi Lovato began to work in the entertainment industry in 2016 and 2018. Demi explained that there was one time when she left her room, binged, and purged one night, but she came clean to her team and said, "Hey, this happened," and there was a person on her team who took control over what she had been consuming. Demi Lovato shared that she needed help and the person said that she did not look sick enough, which was their way of saying that she did not need help, and a year later, the nearly fatal overdose situation happened in 2018.
