Demi Lovato Wrote Her Late Father a Heartfelt Letter to Release Her "Resentments" Towards Him

cosmopolitan.com:

, she's now , and seems to be in a very healthy state of mind lately. Part of that healthy state of mind has come from self-reflection, Demi shared in a , in which she addresses her relationship with her late father Patrick Lovato.

Despite Demi having a rocky relationship with, Demi is still incredibly grateful for passing down some of his better personality traits to her. "There was the anniversary of my father's death, which is a couple of days after Father's Day — a really hard time of year for me.

But this year, something happened," Demi wrote. "I wrote a gratitude letter to him, thanking him for all the things that I got from him," she explained. "It was this beautiful release of all the resentments I had toward him.