Demi Lovato and Drew Get Honest About Difficulties of Growing Up as Child Stars

Hello, Hello, I just want you to know that I watched the documentary and there were a lot of things that I identified with, yes, and I am very excited to have the opportunity to talk to someone who can understand certain things that I have experienced and I felt it and I went through it. and this is all about you, but I can't tell you what a safe space you are, what an incredible talent and what an incredible force you are, I just want to talk, you know, girl to girl, woman to woman, I think. In our strange life trajectory, you grow up so fast and you're in adult-like jobs and yet you're not an adult, but sometimes you're like hanging out with other kids and working with them, but your co-workers aren't kids. and yeah, what your responsibilities are and what you have access to and you're definitely the one paying the rent so it's very strange.

I always rebelled against authority because deep down I thought I was paying for here my parents like that they did the best they could um there is no manual on how to raise a

child

star and when the

child

star responds after the parent He says you know you're grounded for sneaking out at three in the morning, whatever it is, um when you know I replied: Well, I pay the bills, what are you going to do? What are you going to do to keep me grounded? So it was a challenge and it was also really very interesting, since I started working on the set at the age of eight on Barney and his friends, yeah. and so, um, I was around adults at eight years old and, in fact, I always got along better with adults than with children, for some reason, it was always me, so when I was with a lot of adults, I felt more Comfortable, but you know, adults get off work and go for a drink, kids, what do we know?

So it's a weird thing to think about, especially when you become a teenager in Hollywood and your adult peers are, you know, like I said. going to a bar after work or whatever and you're 17 years old thinking, well, what can I do to play? Know? And it left me strange, you like it too. I always have this mentality of if you're going to work. As an adult, I party like one, but the reality is that adults weren't partying like me, so no, but it's true. I remember always wanting to be the person who had a martini at dinner and had a cocktail, but I'm the girl who probably drinks too many martinis at Dinner Park.

Okay, let's start early because when you have to bring out the good, the bad and the ugly, even at a young age, I don't do it. I don't understand why the press feels they have the right to ask you anything and why we also feel complacent about people who have to answer all their questions. Yes, yes, totally. I struggled a lot with that even in the first moment. Some interviews after finding out or preparing for the documentary to come out. I was answering questions that I realized. I thought I didn't have to answer them and so we do.

I like to say that I am an open book with limits. because I feel like I wear my heart on my sleeve, but I've also learned to protect myself from people, like getting too involved in personal things, well, I got really angry when that guy on the red carpet, I think. it's that gentleman chris uh whatever his name is i forgot his last name chris harrison um and you know he's a fun guy and he's working and this is no offense to him it could have been anyone it's not personal to him but when he says You're 16, what do you know about heartbreak?

It's not the worst question you've ever been asked, but totally because the narrative that the documentary just revealed says that you had been through so much at 16. I wanted to rip his face off, why? I have the right to tell you that. You know, I think the reason we get angry when we watch that clip is because we're watching a 16-year-old girl answer the question. It is very easy for us to look at a teenager. and I have empathy for her, I definitely do, I think it's very interesting the way you talk about it, it's a very high path, it feels very zen and calm, I still have that little angry rebel in me that no matter how open I am , I think that when clever questions arise titled.

I still hear moments in my life where I wish I had had the ability to say. Oh my goodness, you know I've been very open, but I'm going to have to say I'm not going to respond. that absolutely and at some point you have to say okay, I'm putting my foot down and I and I have to say no, I can't answer these questions anymore and I think it's never too late to set a boundary with the world and I learned. which um and I have continued to set boundaries where I know it seems like I've talked a lot about my life but I didn't talk about everything and that's where my limit is um there are things that I will never do share them with the world because no one could benefit from them um and it's well um that's for me and my treatment team I love it because it's sexy it's mysterious it's fun it makes people want to know more it makes people think oh my gosh, there's even more For this person, they've already been so nice to let me talk about it.

How do you feel now that you've exposed that in the documentary? So, I really feel like it's easier to be transparent and

honest

with people. because I couldn't, I don't know, there's just nothing less attractive to me than pretending something didn't happen when it did and then living a lie, trying to pretend that way, that doesn't appeal to me at all and I've never done that anyway. I've been that kind of person, so I feel like sometimes it was my only option, but not in the sense that I felt obligated, it was just the only thing that made me feel good, absolutely, yeah.