Demi Lovato opens up
Last year, Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich went through a very messy, very public split.
In a new interview with Glamour this week, she said she felt a, 'sense of relief,' when they ended their engagement.
The singer explained, '...I could live my truth.'
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The topic came up during a chat about her sexuality.
Demi told the outlet that she's, 'really queer,' and the older she gets, the more she realises this.
'I know who I am and what I am, but I’m just waiting until a specific timeline to come out to the world as what I am.'
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'I started realising how queer I really am.'
'I’m following my healers' timeline,' she said.
'And I’m using this time to really study and educate myself on my journey and what I’m preparing to do.'
'When I started getting older, I started realising how queer I really am.'
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Glamour's entertainment editor Christopher Rosa wrote that she was, 'beaming,' as she spoke about her sexuality with him.
Demi went on to reference her split from Max Ehrich.
She said, 'when it didn’t work, I was like, this is a huge sign.'
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'I thought I was going to spend my life with someone,' the 28-year-old continued.
'Now that I wasn’t going to, I felt this sense of relief that I could live my truth.'
Demi recalled, '[hooking] up with a girl,' and realising, 'I like this a lot more.'
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'It felt better,' she continued, 'It felt right.'
Demi said she had, 'this kind of visceral reaction,' whenever she got intimate with a man.
'Like, 'I just don’t want to put my mouth there,'' she explained.
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'It wasn’t even based on the person it was with.'
Demi said she appreciated the friendships she had with those people, rather than the romances.
'I didn’t want the romance from anybody of the opposite sex.'
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Red flags
The former Disney Channel star went on to say there were numerous, 'red flags,' in her relationship with Max.
'Because I denied my intuition of all the red flags that had popped up, I had no one else to blame but myself.'
'So I was like, 'How am I ever going to trust again?''
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Demi admitted, 'But really, I was like, 'B**ch, you should have trusted yourself.''
''If you had trusted yourself, you wouldn’t have ended up in this position.''
The relationship taught her to trust her own instincts.
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Following that realisation, she was able to open up more, 'My heart is pretty open.'
'I’m very much listening to my intuition, and that’s not to say my boundaries or my guard is up.'
'It’s just saying my ears are perked a little higher and my eyes are open a little wider.'
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Demi's new documentary, Dancing with the Devil drops March 23rd.
In it, she goes into detail on her 2018 hospitalisation, and admits she suffered three strokes and a heart attack.
Check out the trailer here.
