CNN
—
Demi Lovato returned to the Met Gala on Monday, eight years after a foul expertise on the occasion made her query if she’d ever wish to attend once more.
After the gala in 2016, Lovato posted on Instagram a since-deleted photograph of herself standing on the crimson carpet close to Nicki Minaj, who appeared displeased. Lovato wrote that the picture “just about summed up my first and doubtless final Met.”
“I had a horrible expertise,” she instructed Billboard in a 2018 interview. “It was very cliquey.”
Lovato mentioned that she remembered “being so uncomfortable that I wished to drink,” and that she ended up leaving early – whereas nonetheless carrying “hundreds of thousands of {dollars} of diamonds” – to attend an alcoholics nameless assembly.
“I associated extra to the homeless folks in that assembly who struggled with the identical struggles that I cope with than the folks on the Met Gala,” she mentioned.
Lovato publicly documented her history with substance abuse and her restoration.
In July 2018, Lovato was hospitalized following a close to deadly overdose only one month after revealing that she had relapsed when she launched a track known as “Sober.” She later shared in her 2021 YouTube documentary “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil” that in her hospitalization, she suffered a number of strokes and a coronary heart assault.
The singer has since turned over a brand new leaf, telling Andy Cohen on his Sirius XM radio present final 12 months that she’s practising sobriety and is in a “extra constructive thoughts house.”
“I wouldn’t change my path as a result of I don’t have any regrets,” she mentioned.