These days, things couldn’t be going better for Demi Lovato. She’s had a string of hits, such as “Confident,” “Cool for the Summer,” and “Body Say.” She’s also currently on a national tour with Nick Jonas. Of course, Lovato has had plenty of speed bumps on her road to success, including struggles with both drug addiction, body issues, and depression. To her credit, the young singer has never been shy about discussing this aspect of her life, and in an episode of CBS Sunday Morning that will air this coming Sunday, she spoke very frankly about it in an interview with Tracy Smith. One of the major revelations of the interview is that she is now a co-owner of the CAST Center, the rehabilitation facility that she stayed in, in 2013.
Lovato’s stay at CAST was so successful that she brought Mike Bayer, the CEO of CAST, and her personal rehab guru on tour with her this summer. Lovato is quite excited about the opportunities that co-owning CAST will afford her:
Why buy in? “I don’t know what it says, it just feels good,” Lovato tells Smith.
“How many 24-year-olds own their own treatment center?” says Lovato’s manager, Phil McIntyre. “But then to leverage her position in pop music to do so much good is just incredible.”
During the interview, Lovato was also quite candid about the fact that during her treatment, she wasn’t always an easy patient:
To say Lovato has come a long way since undergoing treatment at CAST would be an understatement. Indeed, CAST’s Bayer admits to Smith that when he first met the former Disney star-turned-household name, she was “very closed off.” She would also sleep a lot and express herself with one word-answers. “[She] didn’t care about anything,” Bayer said.
Lovato says she was far from a model patient. “Yeah, I was a nightmare,” she said. “I would say … the word that I want to say, but it’s so inappropriate that I can’t. And this will be on a Sunday morning, so I’m not going to say it!”
It seems like Lovato has come out of one of the worst periods of her life decidedly on top, and if she runs into old problems, she has a great support system to help her through it.
(Via CBS News)
