Demi Lovato started using drugs as soon as she was a teenager.
The “Cool For The Summer” hitmaker, who was featured on Wednesday’s episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, talked about the troubled relationship she had with substance abuse in the past.
“I first started experimenting when I was 12 or 13,” she told host Alexandra Cooper. “I was in a car accident and they prescribed me opiates.”
“My mother didn’t think she should lock up her 13-year-old daughter’s opiates, but I was already drinking by then,” she explained. “I was bullied and was looking for a way out.”
The Disney Channel alum said her mother snatched the pills and “locked them up” after finding out how many had been consumed by the singer.
But it wasn’t just drugs that rocked the boat at home for Lovato.
She recalled experimenting a lot with alcohol and revealed that she “drink a lot” as a teenager.
Lovato resorted to stealing beer from her stepfather’s fridge and admitted she was “alone” the very first time she drank alcohol.
“[That] should have been a big red flag,” she added.
The drinking turned into heavy drugs, while Lovato recalled being addicted to cocaine towards the end of her teens.
“When I was 17 it was the first time I tried coke and I thought it was too much and then it bled a little bit when I went to treatment right after I turned 18,” she explained.
This then put her in rehab, which she said would “take a long time.”
In January, Lovato completed another stint in rehab, three years after her near-fatal overdose in 2018, which left her with three strokes and a heart attack.
Lovato maintained a “California sober” lifestyle and still drank alcohol and smoked weed in moderation.
However, in December 2021, Lovato announced that she “no longer supported my ‘Californian sober’ ways.”
Describing her overdose in her YouTube documentary series, she candidly told fans how much of a grip her addiction had over her, from taking meth and heroin to getting injections now to avoid getting high.