As Demi Lovato graces the cover of the March issue of Glamour the singer lets us in on various major revelations almost three years after her overdose.
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She tells the magazine right from the start, “When I ignore and deny myself of my truth, I get angry and I overflow, and I make choices that are really bad for me.” She adds, “If I look in the mirror and present the mirror with something I’m not, it will shatter.”
Between meditating and bringing on new management, the “Commander In Chief” singer says she’s found a place of balance. “My whole life fell into place the way it was supposed to,” explained Lovato.
On becoming sober, Demi has had to be honest in her approach towards sobriety. She shares that in the wake of her overdose she discovered that an all-or-nothing outlook is not healthy for her. She has opted to leave room for having a drink or smoking some weed.
However, in 2018 EMTs had to treat Lovato with Narcan, and was hospitalized in order to save her life. In prior interviews, the artist revealed that her overdose caused three strokes and a heart attack.
In 2017 Lovato shared her fluid sexuality, and in her most recent conversation with Glamour, she delves further into her queer identity. The 28-year-old shared, “When I started getting older, I started realizing how queer I really am.” She continues, “This past year I was engaged to a man, and when it didn’t work, I was like, ‘this is a huge sign.’ I thought I was going to spend my life with someone. Now that I wasn’t going to, I felt this sense of relief that I could live my truth.”
She says at the moment, being with men isn’t for her, telling the magazine, “I hooked up with a girl and was like, ‘I like this a lot more.’ It felt better. It felt right. Some of the guys I was hanging out with — when it would come time to be sexual or intimate, I would have this kind of visceral reaction. Like, ‘I just don’t want to put my mouth there.’ It wasn’t even based on the person it was with.”
“I just found myself really appreciating the friendships of those people more than the romance, and I didn’t want the romance from anybody of the opposite sex.”
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Demi’s life story thus far will debut in a new four-part Netflix documentary called Dancing With the Devil which will debut at the SXSW Film Festival.
The documentary will begin streaming on March 23.
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