Demi Lovato reveals she would try to sneak cocaine onto planes

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Last Updated : Dec 11 2013 | 12:36 PM IST
Demi Lovato has revealed that during the height of her addiction she would try to sneak cocaine onto planes as she found it impossible to go without the drug even for an hour.
The former Disney star, 21, has been vocal about her struggle to overcome her drug addiction and eating disorder but for the first time she opened up about how severe it was, reported Access Hollywood.
"I couldn't go 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine and I would bring it on airplanes. I would smuggle it basically, and just wait until everyone in first class would go to sleep, and I would do it right there. I'd sneak to the bathroom and I'd do it. That's how difficult it got, and that was even with somebody," she said.
The 'X Factor' judge said she became a manipulator to hide her problems and even managed to convince her mother Dianna that everything was okay with her before hitting the rock bottom at the age of 19.
"I was going to the airport and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with vodka and it was just nine in the morning and I was throwing up in the car. I had a moment where I was like, 'Oh, my God... That is alcoholic behavior.' (It's) no longer, 'I'm young and rebellious and having fun'," said Lovato.
The star also talked about her eating disorder, which began when she was 8.
"I started overeating, compulsively overeating. I would bake cookies and then eat the whole pan... It was just this crazy battle going on inside me. It got really difficult. I would throw up and it would just be blood and it was something that I realized if I don't stop this, I am going to die.
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First Published: Dec 11 2013 | 12:36 PM IST

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