14 DAY TRIAL // After ringing in the New Year with friends, pop star Ke$ha decided it was time to start getting back to good health, so she checked herself into a clinic that specializes in treating eating disorders, having developed one herself. A new report claims her own music producer is responsible for that.
The other day, Ke$ha released a short statement to announce she would be unavailable for the next 30 days because she’d be getting treatment for an undisclosed eating disorder.
She didn’t say which facility she was staying at, but reports online say she’s at the same one where Demi Lovato also received help for her own eating disorder and other problems.
Before she checked into the facility, the Timberline Knolls center near Chicago, the pop star had been telling friends that she considered Dr. Luke, her music producer, responsible for her problems because he bullied her about her weight until she got skinny, TMZ reports.
Dr. Luke is a well-known name in the industry, having worked as well with the likes of Miley Cyrus and Rihanna. He actually discovered Ke$ha and signed her when she was 18.
He didn’t start nagging her about her weight until a couple of years ago: when her Get Sleazy tour ended in 2011, he “started ragging on her over the extra lbs she had gained in her downtime,” the report notes. At the same time, he started putting pressure on Ke$ha’s management to tell her to lose weight – or else.
“Our sources say Ke$ha complained, during a music video shoot in 2012 Luke told her she ‘looks like a [expletive]-ing refrigerator’ and the singer was profoundly affected by it,” TMZ says.
Coincidence or not, Ke$ha started losing weight that year, and has been getting skinnier and skinnier ever since. Many of her fans assumed that she’d went on a healthy diet and ditched the many empty calories in booze, but, as it turns out, the truth was far from that.
Dr. Luke was not available for comment at the time this story got out.