Demi Lovato Recalls First 'Experimenting' With Opiates at 13 Following a Car Accident: I Wanted 'An Escape'

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Demi Lovato was barely a teen when she started experimenting with drugs and alcohol. The 30-year-old singer got candid about her past during an interview with Alexandra Cooper for the Wednesday episode of the «Call Her Daddy» podcast, and she didn't hold back.«I started experimenting for the first time when I was 12, or 13,» Lovato recalled, before noting that it was due to an injury that she was introduced to pills. «I got into a car accident and they prescribed me opiates.

My mom didn't think she would have to lock up the opiates from her 13-year-old daughter but, like, I was already drinking at that point.»«I had been bullied and was looking for an escape,» Lovato added. «When my mom saw how many of the pills had been disappeared and how fast they did, she took them away and locked them up.»Lovato went on to share that she «drank a lot» in her «teenage years,» and before trying drugs like cocaine, she'd steal her mom's Xanax medication. «At 17, it was the first time I tried coke and, like, loved it too much and then kind of bled into me going to treatment right after I turned 18,» she said.As for the start of her drinking, the Disney alum recalled being alone the first time she tried alcohol, which she says «should have been a major red flag.»«I, like, stole beer from my dad in the fridge, my stepdad,» she recalled. «I took it to my room and drank like four beers just to see what it was like to feel drunk.