Demi Lovato Opens Up About Up Past Drug Use & Addiction

On Being Resentful of Being Labeled An ‘Inspiration’:  “I didn’t go into treatment thinking, ‘OK, now I’m going to be an inspiration,’? At times I was resentful for having that kind of responsibility, but now, it’s really become a part of my life. It holds me accountable.”

On Early Body Image Issues: “Even though I was 2 or 3 years old,“being around somebody who was 80 pounds and had an active eating disorder … it’s hard not to grow up like that…. When I was gaining weight because I was becoming a woman,” she says, “I would look at those images and say to myself, ‘Wait, this is not what I look like. I’m getting fat on the hips and on my butt.’?”

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On How Participating in Beauty Pageants Helped Her Develop Insecurities: “My body-image awareness started way before that,” she says, “but I do attribute a little of my insecurities to being onstage and judged for my beauty.”

On Her Views About Entering Rehab: “I thought, ‘I’m not in treatment for a drug and alcohol problem,’?” she says. “But once I started eating again, the other issues got worse. It was like whack-a-mole.”

To read more from Demi’s interview with American Way, including her thoughts on Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan’s past struggles with mental illness and addiction, click HERE.