Demi Lovato has had a rough time as a teen, and she’s blaming it all on bullying.
The actress/singer is convinced that bullying that began at a young age has lead her to the string of problems that landed her in a rehab facility last year to deal with the issues of anorexia, bulimia, and self-harming and bipolar disorder.
Admitting that her eating issues began at the early age of 8, Lovato tells 20/20 in an interview that will air on Friday, “I literally didn’t know why they were being so mean to me. And when I would ask them why, they would say, ‘Well, you’re fat.’ I was bullied because I was fat.”
“And then a few months later I developed an eating disorder and that’s kind of what I’ve been dealing with ever since. I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old. So, I guess for the past 10 years I’ve had a really unhealthy relationship with food.”
She also admits that it was the eating disorder that almost threatened her career.
“I was performing concerts on an empty stomach. I was losing my voice from purging (vomiting). I was self-medicating. I was not taking medication for depression, and I literally was so emotionally whacked out…”
Lovato has been recovering for the past six months, and though she has officially left her Disney Channel show, ‘Sonny With a Chance,’ she has vowed to focus on her music career full time at the moment.
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