Demi Lovato reveals she was raped as a teenager while working for the Disney Channel - Claim was made in her new documentary, Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil

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Demi Lovato has said she was raped as a teenager while working for the Disney Channel.

The 28-year-old revealed in her documentary Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil that the person faced no consequences after she came forward.

The singer does not say who the offender was, only that she "had to see this person all the time" afterwards.

Radio 1 Newsbeat has contacted the Disney Channel for comment.

The documentary was shown at the South by Southwest virtual festival.

"My MeToo story is me telling somebody that someone did this to me and they never got in trouble for it," says Demi Lovato in it, according to Variety's review.

"I've just kept it quiet because I've always had something to say, and I'm tired of opening my mouth."

The YouTube docuseries tackles issues in Demi Lovato's life such as trauma, addiction and her relapse into a drug overdose in 2018.

She speaks about her alleged rape saying: "We were hooking up but I said - hey, this is not going any farther.

"And that didn't matter to them, they did it anyways. And I internalised it and I told myself it was my fault because I still went in the room with him."

She says she coped through self-harm, and going through the eating disorder bulimia.

In the series, she also talks about a "promise ring" which was worn by some young stars including herself and the Jonas Brothers, as a commitment to only have sex after marriage.

"So what, I'm supposed to come out to the public after saying I have a promise ring? Six months later, I'm supposed to say, well I had sex, even though it was rape? Some people aren't going to see it that way."

The series also shows the damage Demi's drug overdose had in 2018. She was taken to hospital after being found unconscious at her Los Angeles home.

"My doctors said that I had five to 10 more minutes."

After suffering three strokes and a heart-attack, she's previously said she had been "left with brain damage and I still feel the effects of that".

Those effects include blurry vision that means she can't drive and made reading difficult.

Weeks before the incident, she released a song titled Sober, in which she revealed that after six years of sobriety: "I'm not sober any more."

Demi has previously been open about her struggles with addiction and bulimia, including in her 2017 YouTube Originals documentary Simply Complicated.

She re-launched her singing career at last year's Grammy Awards and sang the national anthem at the 2020 Super Bowl.

In January, she sang on a TV special which marked US President Joe Biden's inauguration.

Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil will appear on YouTube from 23 March.

 
She speaks about her alleged rape saying: "We were hooking up but I said - hey, this is not going any farther.

"And that didn't matter to them, they did it anyways. And I internalised it and I told myself it was my fault because I still went in the room with him."
Huh. I got excited at the title and thought for a moment that she was going to expose all the child diddling that goes on behind the scenes at Disney.
Also, what's the fucking point of saying 'them' twice only to reveal it was a man? Just use he and him. Nitpick but it's an annoying side effect of all the woke shit she totes constantly.

Anyway, my hot take is that even if this was a lie she was definitely molested by one or several Disney executives, but she can't expose them because she'll get blacklisted and un-personed from showbiz forever; so she's peddling out this story instead to promote her cash-grab documentary. I feel bad for her, eating disorders and trauma are hell, but she makes it really hard to like her. That, and her music sucks.
 
Name or BTFO. Apparently she had to see him all the time, and it’s not unreasonable for anyone to say he could still be there. While you’re on a soap box, some other kids getting their childhood fucked over forever. You’re a big enough super star to just straight up tell who it is. God, what a worthless report. I genuinely hope she makes contact to reveal the name.
 
She speaks about her alleged rape saying: "We were hooking up but I said - hey, this is not going any farther.

"And that didn't matter to them, they did it anyways. And I internalised it and I told myself it was my fault because I still went in the room with him."
I don’t know, this at least sounds believable - young girl dating a guy and he goes further than she wants, and then she blames herself for it.
And it sounds like she did at least report it to Disney at some point and they didn’t do anything, which I’d actually believe.

As a part of a documentary, rather than her just putting it out there on a tweet, I’m actually willing to give her the benefit of the doubt on this one. Perhaps because she’s not naming names in a revenge attempt, like a lot of these girls. It’s more of a “yeah, my life got fucked up, and this is part of why.”
 
Name or BTFO. Apparently she had to see him all the time, and it’s not unreasonable for anyone to say he could still be there. While you’re on a soap box, some other kids getting their childhood fucked over forever. You’re a big enough super star to just straight up tell who it is. God, what a worthless report. I genuinely hope she makes contact to reveal the name.
Still not naming the Schneider, sad!
 
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Feminism. Not even once.

The singer does not say who the offender was, only that she "had to see this person all the time" afterwards.
Say his name or fuck off, drug addict.

In the series, she also talks about a "promise ring" which was worn by some young stars including herself and the Jonas Brothers, as a commitment to only have sex after marriage.
They probably kept that promise about as well as Taylor Swift.
 
I don’t know, this at least sounds believable - young girl dating a guy and he goes further than she wants, and then she blames herself for it.
And it sounds like she did at least report it to Disney at some point and they didn’t do anything, which I’d actually believe.

As a part of a documentary, rather than her just putting it out there on a tweet, I’m actually willing to give her the benefit of the doubt on this one. Perhaps because she’s not naming names in a revenge attempt, like a lot of these girls. It’s more of a “yeah, my life got fucked up, and this is part of why.”
That doesn’t make sense rereading this. It’s in no way an intentional revenge attempt to expose a sex weirdo at a well, world renown place and IP like Disney. That’s called being a good person. She can say she‘s not doing this for revenge, and simply state she doesn’t want any further harm to come to others.

It’s not. That. Fucking. Hard. Truly!
 
Police report?
Deuteronomy 22:
-23- "If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

-24- "then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

-25- "But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

-26- "But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter.

-27- "For he found her in the countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

She didn't name a name, who cares? She trivializes people who are truly raped and seeks help afterward. Post-wall bitch.
 
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