Demi Lovato has revealed that she started experimenting with drugs and alcohol when she was just 13 years old.
The 30-year-old singer discussed how she began using drugs as a pre-teen after suffering injuries related to a car accident during Wednesday's episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast with host Alexander Cooper.
"I got into a car accident and they prescribed me opiates," the 'Confident' singer said. "My mom didn't think she would have to lock up the opiates from her 13-year-old daughter but I was already drinking at that point."
Lovato explained that she was also being "bullied" at the time and that through substance abuse she was "looking for an escape".
Watch Lovato's interview below:The Disney Channel alum said her mother then took away the pills and "locked them up" after she noticed how much her daughter was consuming.
She also disclosed on the podcast that she "drank a lot" in her teenage years by stealing beer from her stepdad's refrigerator, and said that the incident should have been a "major red flag" for her family.
The 'Heart Attack' hitmaker later experimented with cocaine, saying: "At 17, it was the first time I tried coke and, like, loved it too much and then kinda bled into me going to treatment right after I turned 18."
Lovato has been completely sober since December of last year and said that treatment for addiction was a "long time coming" after being "really good at convincing people" that she wasn't struggling with addiction.
Between the ages of 20 and 26, the Camp Rock star remained sober but suffered a traumatic near-fatal overdose in 2018.
The 'Cool For The Summer' singer - who last year announced she was going "sober sober" rather than "California sober" - recently said on Audacy's Mix 104.1 in Boston that she "rarely thinks about substances".
The former child star also revealed that she tried making "bargaining choices" on the road to recovery, saying: "I tried just smoking weed, I tried doing this... And I just realized that none of it works for me. What's come into my life is acceptance."
"I'm in such acceptance of my life the way that it is that I really rarely think about substances, which is a beautiful thing and something that I never thought would happen to me," she added.
