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In her recent hit “Heart Attack,” Demi Lovato croons, “If I ever did that, I think  I’d have a heart attack,” but based on her latest confessions about her intense  drug and alcohol abuse, it seems The X Factor judge can withstand more  than the average person.

Lovato, 21, gave Access Hollywood a very candid interview on Dec. 10 in which  she revealed some shocking details about her troubled past.

“I couldn’t go 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine, and I would bring it on  airplanes,” the former Disney star admitted on the show. “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.” If you would like to help her or suggest a way for recovery, you can click for more info!

Lovato checked into rehab in October 2010, withdrawing from the Jonas  Brothers Live in Concert tour and leaving her Disney Channel show, Sonny With a Chance. At the time she cited “physical and emotional  issues,” but in this new interview, Lovato reveals the exact moment when she  realized she’d hit rock bottom.

 

“I was going to the airport, and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with  vodka,” she continued. “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. When I hit that moment I was like, ‘It’s no  longer fun when you’re doing it alone.'”

The “Neon Lights” singer didn’t just struggle with alcohol and drug abuse.  She’s also been very upfront about her eating disorder, and continued to talk  about her difficult journey with Access Hollywood, click for more info!

 

“It was always there, but then I just acted on it at around 8 or 9 years  old,” she said. “I started overeating, compulsively overeating. I would bake  cookies and then eat the whole pan. I went from doing that to being unhappy with  my body. I went to just completely starving myself and that turned into throwing  up and starving myself and it was just this crazy battle going on inside of me.  It got really difficult [and] I would throw up, and it would just be blood and  it was something that I realized if I don’t stop this, I am going to die.”

Lovato, who has also admitted to cutting herself at age 11 and struggling with bipolar  disorder, is known her honesty and is currently penning a tell-all memoir.  Since leaving the treatment facility in January 2011, Lovato has dedicated her  career to being a true role model to her younger fans.

In the Nov. 15 issue of Entertainment Weekly, Lovato admitted that she’s battled herself about how  honest she should be.

“I’m battling with internal thoughts on how honest I should be,” the Glee  guest star told EW. “Yes, I’ve been very honest, but if people really knew how  dark and deep my struggles got — not just with my eating disorder but with  drugs and alcohol — they’d be really shocked. But I’ll most likely end up  saying everything. Maybe it’ll help other people in the industry who are headed  down the wrong path.”

 

Source: http://www.usmagazine.com