Demi Lovato s Recovery Plan Includes Alcohol, and So Does Mine
In her new documentary, the singer opens up about using the controversial moderation method. I’m glad she did.
In Demi Lovato’s new YouTube documentary,
Dancing With The Devil, she gets candid about how she’s navigating addiction recovery in a way I wish more public figures would embrace. In the infancy of my own recovery I wished there were someone like Demi to look towards. I battled heroin addiction for years of my life, went through six stints in rehab and tried just about everything short of a lobotomy to get myself clean. My relapses were relentless, my various ways of attempting sobriety weren’t working and my hope for recovery was waning. I tried telling the people in my recovery circle that twelve-step meetings and total abstinence weren’t what was best for me, but the response was the same just keep coming back, miracles happen, follow this simple program. It felt like the equivalent of “it’s n