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Demi Lovato remembers taking opiates at the age of 13 following a car accident
Demi Lovato opened up to drug use as soon as she became a teenager.
He appears in the Wednesday episode “Call Daddy” podcasthit maker Cool For The Summer touched upon a problematic relationship she had with past substance abuse.
“I started experimenting for the first time when I was 12 or 13,” Alexandra Cooper told the host. “I had a car accident and they prescribed opiates.”
“My mom didn’t think she would have to quit opiates from her 13-year-old daughter, but I was already drinking then,” she explained. “I was bullied and I was looking for an escape.”
A Disney Channel graduate said her mom took the pills and “closed them” after finding out how many had been consumed by the singer.
But it wasn’t just drugs that rocked Lovato’s home.
She recalled experimenting a lot with alcohol, revealing that she “drank a lot” as a teenager.
Lovato resorted to stealing beer from her stepfather’s refrigerator and admitted that she was “lonely” the first time she drank alcohol.
“[That] it should have been the main red flag, ”she added.
Drinking turned into heavy drugs because Lovato remembered being addicted to cocaine in her late teens.
“At 17, I tried cocaine for the first time and, for example, I liked it too much, and then it poured into me when I went into treatment right after I turned 18,” she explained.
This then ended up in rehab, which she said was “a long time to come.”
In January, Lovato underwent another period of rehab, three years after an almost fatal overdose in 2018 that left her with three strokes and a heart attack.
Lovato insisted “Californian sober” lifestyle and continued to drink alcohol and smoke weed in moderation.
However, in December 2021, Lovato announced that she “no longer supports my ‘California sober’ ways.”
She described her overdose in her YouTube documentary, frankly telling fans how her addiction is affecting her, from the use of methamphetamine and heroin to now having to get injections to prevent the high.