Dianna De La Garza detailed her daughter’s struggles in an earlier book and interview. Demi Lovato’s mother has been vocal about her daughter’s troubled…
Dianna De La Garza detailed her daughter’s struggles in an earlier book and interview.
Demi Lovato’s mother has been vocal about her daughter’s troubled past, and she once described the star’s addiction battles as “heartbreaking.” While some of the people who have been close to Lovato expressed shock over news of her apparent drug overdose— as the Inquisitr previously reported, Lovato’s ex-boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama and longtime friend Nick Jonas are reportedly both reeling over the news— Demi’s mother, Dianna De La Garza, has watched the former child star’s struggles up close from the time she was a teen.
Lovato, who has struggled with addiction, bulimia, and bipolar disorder, recently celebrated six years of sobriety, but she detailed a relapse last month when she released the single, “Sober.” In the new song, Lovato sings the heartbreaking lyric, “Momma, I’m so sorry, I’m not sober anymore/And daddy, please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor.”
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“That was a very heartbreaking time in my life because we basically sat down with Demi and said to her, as much as it hurt me, ‘You have to get serious about getting help and getting sober because you have a little sister, and I can’t allow her to be around you if this is how it’s going to be.’ I didn’t want to say that, as a mother, but I had to because it was the truth. And I did tell her: ‘I will have to take Madison and move back to Texas because I can’t stay and watch this anymore, and I don’t want Madison to see this.’”
De La Garza added that the ultimatum was a “defining” moment for Demi, who committed to getting clean and went to live in a sober house.
“But her purpose is so much bigger,” De La Garza said in February. “I’m proud Demi is an advocate for mental health and positive body image — she’s a role model because of what she’s been through and where she is today.”
