Demi Lovato first used opiates after she was involved in a car accident when she was 13 years old. During an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast on Wednesday, the singer opened up about her history with drugs and alcohol and recalled that she first tried opioids after she was prescribed the painkillers following an accident. "I started experimenting for the first time when I was 12, or 13," she told host Alexandra Cooper. "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 I was already drinking at that point.
I had been bullied and was looking for an escape. " The 30-year-old said her mother Dianna "locked them up" after she noticed how many pills her daughter was taking.
The Confident singer confessed that she "drank a lot" of booze during her teenage years and first drank alone when she stole beer from her stepdad's fridge, an action she called "a major red flag".
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