Demi Lovato relapsed after six years sober, recorded a song about it
Demi Lovato was spotted out this April with a drink in hand, which was curiously photoshopped out of some social media posts. She got defensive and claimed at the time that it was Red Bull, but it’s possible that she was fibbing about a relapse. Demi has a new song in which she admits that she drank again. She’s also made some posts to Twitter suggesting it. Demi was sober for six years this March.
Demi Lovato revealed she relapsed just months after celebrating six years of sobriety.
“To the ones who never left me / We’ve been down this road before / I’m so sorry, I’m not sober anymore,” Lovato, 25, sings in her new single, “Sober,” released Thursday.
Elsewhere in the song, she apologizes for the “drinks spilled on the floor” and admits, “I wanna be a role model / But I’m only human … I’m sorry that I’m here again / I promise I’ll get help / It wasn’t my intention / I’m sorry to myself.”
The former Disney star hinted on Twitter numerous times in the last month that her “truth” was coming — and that not everyone would be happy with it.
“There’s nothing like the truth. The honest to God, uncomfortable and shocking truth. Sometimes you have to share your story in the most honest way possible… for me that’s through music,” she wrote in May, adding, “Sometimes you have to end an era to begin talking about a new chapter of your life.”
She also hinted days later that she’d made some changes to her lifestyle and inner circle.
“I feel like I’ve grown more in the past two months than I have in years. I feel like a new woman and I’m so grateful for my life today,” she wrote on June 1.
I recently ran into a guy I knew from AA (I don’t go anymore but I’m still sober) and he confessed to me that he’d relapsed but that he was afraid to go back to meetings, where he would get lectured to by old timers. That’s his personal issue, but it’s also indicative of AA and “all or nothing” thinking. Smart Recovery and rational emotive therapy discourage this. If you drank once or a few times after you’ve been sober for a handful of years it’s not like all is lost. You just had years of sobriety which is awesome. Go back to being sober and don’t make it worse by wallowing. (Smart recovery also recommends abstinence. I don’t think people with drinking problems can successfully moderate, but of course that’s individual. Edit: I also want to say that I encourage people to go to AA and that it did help me.)
Demi has helped people by being open about her sobriety and her relapse, but like a lot of things she does I don’t think other people are her motivation.
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