Lovato has also spoken up for herself when she’s been publicly criticized for her weight. Guitarist Nita Strauss — ranked No. 1 on Guitar World’s list of “10 Female Guitar Players You Should Know” — recently wrapped an eight-year run in Alice Cooper’s touring band to back Lovato in support of “Holy Fvck” this summer and fall. Strauss, 35, lauds Lovato not just for hiring an all-woman band for the job but also for advancing the cause of women and gender-nonconforming people in rock. Lovato, whose every album has cracked the top five on the Billboard 200, is embracing her shadow side on her new LP, “Holy Fvck,” out Aug. 19.

There was a lot of that going on throughout the making of the whole record — acclimating to the song and to the feel of it, just in the moment. When it came to doing it for this record, I wanted to have something different, and the idea of having a young girl’s voice telling the story of talking to her mom to find out about her infamous late father, just made sense to me. She’s got such a great, soulful voice, but it’s also got a certain kind of youth to it. Blues Ball was really just for the fun of it, so it didn’t really take precedence. But all these years later, I was on tour with Guns N’ Roses, and we had a three-week break or whatever it was.

But seven years before Dre’s label came calling, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith saw potential in a 16-year-old rapper by the name of K.Dot. The tour will feature support from DEAD SARA and Royal & the Serpent, maverick house rehab and tickets go on sale on June 10 at 10 a.m. In January, the singer posted a photo sitting alongside members of their team, including their manager Scooter Braun and Island Records executives. “Getting emotional listening to my new album because I’m so proud of it,” they said.

For her part, Lovato — Gomez’s childhood bestie and “Barney & Friends” costar — got her big break playing Mitchie Torres in Camp Rock alongside the Jonas Brothers as fictional boy band Connect 3, led by Joe Jonas as the swaggering and floppy-haired Shane Gray. Much like Duff had five years prior in the wake of The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Lovato released her debut solo album, 2008’s Don’t Forget, just three months after her DCOM broke records for the Disney Channel. Long before becoming a singer, however, Lovato got her start as a child actor. In fact, the superstar’s first on-screen role was playing Angela for two seasons on “Barney & Friends” from 2002 to 2004.

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From them, Lovato learned to throw her body into her otherwise supple voice, suffusing every peak and valley of a song with a magnitude fitting for rock. At her home studio in Los Angeles, Lovato posed for a photo with representatives from her record label and management team, led by Scooter Braun, who were all, incidentally, dressed in black. At the center of the picture sat Lovato, raising two middle fingers to the camera; “a funeral for my pop music,” she captioned the image on Instagram. The “La La Land” singer made her television debut in 2002’s Barney and Friends ahead of her breakthrough role in the Disney Channel original movie Camp Rock. She went on to star in Camp Rock 2, Princess Protection Program, and the Disney Channel TV series Sonny with a Chance.

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In January, Lovato performed her song, “Anyone,” at the GRAMMYs, and had to momentarily stop and restart after getting emotional onstage. She was able to pull it off and wowed viewers with the raw performance. A few days later, Lovato dazzled yet again, singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. “Ultimately, I made the decisions that got me to where I am today. It was my actions that put me in the position that I’m in,” she admitted at the time.

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“I thought the past few years was recovery from an eating disorder when it actually was just completely falling into it.” In the year after her overdose, Lovato mostly stayed out of the spotlight to focus on herself and her recovery. After struggling with an eating disorder, Lovato has been focused recently on not letting food or her weight bring her to a dark place again.

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3. After the song was released in June 2018, she went on tour in Europe where she stayed away from drugs but was drinking heavily.
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5. I’m glad you dig it because you’re probably the first person that’s actually singled that song out.

It was Vitale’s birthday party that Lovato had attended the night before her overdose. Vitale received thousands of messages a day on social media telling her to kill herself and to stay away from Lovato. While on vacation in Bali, Lovato realized that she had become physically dependent on heroin. It led her to pen the powerful ballad “Sober,” admitting publicly that she had relapsed and apologizing to her family, friends, and fans.

“I have learned to have a healthier relationship with being on camera and just having acceptance over my body,” she said. “Going back and acknowledging my struggles was honoring my inner child and holding space for my younger self… that didn’t get to live a normal childhood in my younger years,” she added. “I’m such a fluid person when it comes to my gender, my sexuality, my music, my creativity,” Lovato said on the podcast, a short-form interview series with celebrities. Lovato, who in 2021 came out as nonbinary and changed their pronouns to “they,” said this week on the “Spout” podcast that they’ve “been feeling more feminine” recently and adopted their former pronouns.