Demi Lovatois telling her own story.
Here are some of Lovato’s reflections and revelations fromChild Star.
“When I was a kid, I was so close with my great-grandparents,” Lovato shares.
Demi Lovato at Vanity Fair’s 2024 Oscar party.Taylor Hill/Getty
“They had these two recliner chairs that they would sit in, and we would watch TV together.
I’m going to be the next child star.
If she can do it, I can do it.'
Demi Lovato in ‘Camp Rock’.Disney
And I did.”
“I remember one time you made a whole CD of like eight songs.
It was so extremely hurtful.
Demi Lovato in ‘Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam’.John Medland/Disney Channel/Everett
The singer also believes that her peers' cruelty helped drive her to excel.
“I imagined what it would be like being on Disney Channel.
“The whole thing was so exciting,” the star says.
Demi Lovato at the 2024 Met Gala.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
“We were all kinda just thrown into this Disney machine.
We called it Disney High.
However, the movie also represented a dark chapter in her life.
Demi Lovato performing in 2010.Gustavo Caballero/Getty
However, her enthusiasm for music waned after managers said they weren’t impressed with her early songs.
And that to me chipped away at that raw connection to music.
Obviously my ego was hurt.
Demi Lovato in 2023.Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
It chipped away at my confidence, and I never turned to music the same way again.”
“It was back to back to back to back,” Lovato says.
“I was a teenager, and I was just exhausted.
I was being worked into the ground.
We were all just kinda flopping around, figuring out how to swim.”
I need five minutes.
I just need to sleep,'” De la Garza remembers.
“And I remember trying to wake her up, she couldn’t open her eyes.
Can we pull back a little bit?
And that’s all I’m asking.
Lovato’s exhaustion led to a volatile cycle of guilt and discontent.
“And I was just crying, like, I could not stop crying.
Lovato continues, “I would always feel so gross about myself.
And I felt like I was taking it for granted.
But really I was just a teenager that was struggling.”
“Camp RockI remember a lot more than I doCamp Rock 2,” Lovato explains.
It’s like a common thread between all of us [child stars].”
While speaking withRaven-Symonein the documentary, Lovato reveals that she forgot that they worked together onSonny With a Chance.
“And you were like ‘Bitch, I was on your show!’
and I was like ‘Oh my God, she was.’
“I had punched my backup dancer while on tour in South America.
I got kicked off the tour basically,” Lovato recalls.
It turns out that they had set up for me to go to treatment in a suburb in Chicago.
It wasn’t like a situation where it was like I came to the conclusion that I needed help.
And I felt so hopeless.”
“We didn’t see much of each other cuz we both had our own schedules.
I would love to make up for lost time even though it’s been so long.”
That’s what really matters.”
The documentaryis now streaming on Hulu.
