Lovato has spoken to her before about the fact that she suffers from an eating disorder and drug abuse, and now she is starting to reveal herself about how, even when she recovered for the things before her overdose, she was ‘unhappy’.
“Regardless of what other people have said or done, my actions put me in the seat that is in front of you today,” she told CBS. “Unfortunately, no one can answer for my overdose, but I can.”
Lovato said she’s not completely sober, but rather ‘California sober’. She still drinks occasionally and smokes marijuana.
“I really do not feel comfortable explaining the parameters of my recovery to people,” she said. “Because I do not want people to look at my safety parameters and think that’s what works for them … because it might not be.”
At this point, Lovato says, she’s in a much better place.
“I feel so good,” she said. “I feel more joy in my life than I have ever felt because I do not silence or diminish any part of myself.”