Demi Lovato claims team “barricaded” them in hotel room to control eating disorder
nme.comDemi Lovato has claimed that their team “barricaded” them in a hotel room to control an eating disorder.In a new interview on the Spotify podcast Call Her Daddy, Lovato claims that someone from their management team placed controls over food consumption – such as taking food out of the hotel room or removing the phone so they couldn’t order room service.
The musician claimed in the interview that the measures “exacerbated” an existing eating disorder and made them bulimic again.They go on to claim that after sneaking out of the hotel room one night and “binged and purged”, the security guard “walked by my room, or was made aware that they had barricaded me into my hotel room.
They put furniture outside of my door so that I couldn’t get out, sneak out, and eat if I wanted to. It was that level of controlling when it came to my food, which just made my eating disorder worse.”They allege that their eating disorder worsened to the fact they started to vomit blood and despite seeking help, was discouraged from doing so by a member of their team.“This was in, like, 2017,” they recalled, “and this person looked at me and said, ‘You’re not sick enough’.
And I think that was his way of saying, ‘No, you’re not going back to treatment, because if you do, this will look bad on me.’“And so I didn’t, I didn’t go back into treatment.
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