“I’ve really never talked about this stuff before, I don’t know if I should be sharing this.”
That’s what X Factor judge Demi Lovato said while recounting how her cocaine addiction was once so bad, she couldn’t go an hour without using the drug.
Lovato, 21, told Access Hollywood that she hit rock bottom at 19.
“With my drug use I could hide it to where I would sneak drugs. I couldn’t go without 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine and I would bring it on airplanes,” she said. “I would smuggle it basically and just wait until everyone in first class would go to sleep and I would do it right there. I’d sneak to the bathroom and I’d do it. That’s how difficult it got and that was even with somebody (with me), I had a sober companion, somebody who was watching me 24/7 and living with me (and) I was able to hide it from them as well.”
Her drinking was just as bad.
“I was going to the airport and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with vodka and it was just nine in the morning and I was throwing up in the car and this was just to get on a plane to go back to LA to the sober living house that I was staying at,” she said. “I had all the help in the world, but I didn’t want it.”
Lovato, who sat down with her mom Dianna for the interview, also said she had an eating disorder as far back as age 8.
