Demi Lovato Confirms 'Cool for the Summer' About Sexual Relationship With a Famous Woman, Reveals Status of Her Sobriety

On her quest for sobriety:

“When you’re in so much pain the consequences don’t matter, you just want to escape or numb out. I put numbing out before everything in my life. When I choose drugs I’m choosing them over family, over friends, over my career, over essentially everything. And that’s the way that I use.”

“I have a lot of sympathy for the state of mind I was in to be using those drugs and to take it to that extreme. I think to myself, ‘Wow, you were in a lot of pain and it’s okay now. You’ve worked through it.’”

On the damage she’s done from her overdose:

“I still actually have vision problems to this day. I don’t drive anymore because I have blind spots in my vision,” she said, explaining that even now when she looked him in the eyes she couldn’t see his nose or mouth.

“It killed off some cells that didn’t repair.”

On the last time she did drugs:

“It’s been almost two years since I used, and I don’t wake up every day struggling anymore because I’m choosing it for myself. Now, I understand the pitfalls of how deep and dark it can get, and how desperate I can get, and I never want to feel that again.”