Lovato spoke earlier about suffering from an eating disorder and substance abuse and now she is opening up about how – even when she was recovering from these things before her overdose – she was “miserable”.
“Regardless of what other people may have said or done, my actions put me in the seat in front of you today,” she told CBS. “Unfortunately, nobody can answer for my overdose, except me.”
Lovato said she is not completely sober, but “sober from California”. She still drinks occasionally and smokes some marijuana.
“I really don’t feel comfortable explaining the parameters of my recovery to people,” she said. “Because I don’t want people to look at my security parameters and think that this is what works for them … because it may not work.”
At that point, says Lovato, she is in a much better place.
“I feel so good,” she said. “I feel more joy in life than I ever have because I am not calming or diminishing any part of myself.”