Demi sat down with ABC News' Robin Roberts to share her story of a lifetime of struggles. Here are some excepts from the interview:
"I've spoken openly about being bullied throughout the past few years, but one thing that I've never been able to feel comfortable talking about was the effects that it had on my life, afterwards," she said. "I literally didn't know why they were being so mean to me. And when I would ask them why, they would just say, 'Well, you're fat."
This led to an eatting disorder: "I developed an eating disorder, and that's kind of what I've been dealing with ever since," she said.
Demi began a lifelong struggle with bulimia and alternately, severely restricting her eating: "I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old," she said. "So, I guess, for the past 10 years I've had a really unhealthy relationship with food."
Then it got worse. At age 11, Demi began cutting herself, intentionally self-mutilating her wrists as a way of coping with emotions.
"It was a way of expressing my own shame, of myself, on my own body," she told Roberts. "I was matching the inside to the outside. And there were some times where my emotions were just so built up, I didn't know what to do. The only way that I could get instant gratification was through an immediate release on myself."
All her issues came to head last năm while on tour: "I was performing concerts on an empty stomach," she said. "I was losing my voice from purging. I was self-medicating. I was not taking medication for depression, and I literally was so emotionally whacked out that I took it out on someone that meant a lot to me."
There's thêm to this interview, and we are eager to see the whole thing. For now, check out the video interview below!
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