Demi Lovato has revealed that they rarely think about drugs these days, nearly eight months after starting their journey toward sobriety. It hasn’t exactly been an easy couple of years for the Disney alum, who suffered a near-fatal overdose in July 2018 after being given heroin laced with fentanyl by their dealer, Brandon Johnson. Demi endured three strokes and a heart attack from the lethal combination that almost took their life.
While Demi, who uses they/them pronouns, has been very honest about their past love for drugs, including one night where they mixed meth, molly, weed, alcohol, and oxycontin, via People, the “Tell Me You Love Me” singer says they finally reached a point of acceptance in their quest toward sobriety.
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During a recent interview with Boston’s radio station Mix 104.1, the 29-year-old gushed, “I’m in such acceptance of my life the way that it is that I really rarely think about substances, which is a beautiful thing and something that I never thought would happen to me. And I realize that none of it works for me. What’s come into my life is acceptance.”
The “Sorry Not Sorry” hitmaker went on to admit that while people in their camp had previously tried to keep them sober, they didn’t truly believe they were ready to commit to a lifestyle that didn’t include taking some sort of substance on a regular basis.
Demi has dealt with their drug addiction on and off for years, but this time around, especially now that they are close to being a full year of being completely sober, it appears as if reverting back to their former ways is out of the question because they are loving the person they have become.
“I had people around me that wanted me to be sober,” they continued. “I don’t think that I wanted it. And now, I made all the bargaining choices and I realized that none of it works for me.”
Last year, Demi said they had maintained a “California sober” lifestyle, which saw them drinking and smoking weed in moderation, but by December, they said they no longer wanted to continue living their life depending on some sort of substance, stressing that “sober sober is the only way to be.”
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Their upcoming album, “Holy Fvck,” is the start of a new chapter for Demi, who recorded the entire project completely sober, which is why the songs on the record are very sentimental to them.
“After going through even more stuff last year, I came out of treatment again and I realized, I really want to do this for myself and I want to make the best album possible, something that really represents who I am,” Demi told Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” last month.
“The best way to do that and the easiest way to do something the most authentic is to do it clean and sober. I made this album clean and sober. I can’t say that about my last album, but this one, I’m really, really proud about.”