“I’m very, very good at manipulating people,” former Disney star says

Dec 11, 2013 07:47 GMT  ·  By
Demi Lovato opens up on cocaine addiction, becoming an alcoholic in raw interview
   Demi Lovato opens up on cocaine addiction, becoming an alcoholic in raw interview

Fans already know that former Disney star Demi Lovato had a problem with drug and alcohol abuse but, for the first time ever, she’s opening up in an interview on the severity of that problem. “I’m very, very good at manipulating people,” Demi says, explaining how she managed to get away with it for so long.

In an interview cited by Radar Online, the singer, actress and television personality stresses that some of her bad behavior continued well after she’d been appointed a sober companion to keep her out of trouble.

She says she’d become so hooked on cocaine she couldn’t go up to an hour without a hit, so that made traveling by plane quite a problem. In a very candid manner, Demi admits to smuggling the drug on board the planes she’d travel with and either snort it right there in first class or in the bathroom.

“That’s how difficult it got and that was even with somebody [with me], I had a sober companion, somebody who was watching me 24/7 and living with me [and] I was able to hide it from them as well,” she says.

Drugs weren’t her only addiction though, because she’d also developed a taste for alcohol, which turned into such a huge problem that, most of the days, she’d be drunk already in the morning: not hungover, drunk.

“I was going to the airport and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with vodka and 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 LA to the sober living house that I was staying at. I had all the help in the world, but I didn’t want it,” Demi explains.

“When I hit that moment I was like, it’s no longer fun when you’re doing it alone. I’ve really never talked about this stuff before. I don’t know if I should be sharing this. I think at 19 years old, I had a moment where I was like, ‘Oh my God… that is alcoholic behavior. [It’s] no longer, I’m young and rebellious and out having fun, it was, wow, I’m one of those people…I gotta get my [expletive] together’,” she continues.

She went to rehab immediately afterwards, but not before she hit rock bottom completely, which was when she lashed out at one of her friends and punched her in the face in a fit of rage – also on board a plane.

Demi says the only way she managed to deceive everybody for so long and appear as if everything was OK was because she’d learned from a young age how to manipulate people, how to be the perfect liar.

She’s now speaking out on her many problems because she’s hoping it will inspire other people, be they young or older, to come forward and ask for help if they’re going through a similar situation.