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

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.

Demi Lovato says she was raped as a teenager in new documentary

In a new documentary, the singer alleges the offender faced no consequences after she came forward.

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[Marissa Moira]

Even less people are talking about this than Star Trek Discovery Season 3.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Who'd rape a fatty like her?

 

[Not Really Here]

Even less people are talking about this than Star Trek Discovery Season 3.

Why.
Why would they make a season three of that crap? Sonar in space GTFO.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Assuming it’s even telling the truth, the rapist might still be in the industry molesting more kids

good job trying to be cute and pussyfoot around the issue then, cunt. You’re now responsible for more kids possibly having their lives ruined because you couldn’t give a name and just want to milk this for your own fame. You’re just as bad as he is, again, assuming you’re even telling the truth

 

[Goyslop Muncher]

Why.
Why would they make a season three of that crap? Sonar in space GTFO.

because bugmen will consume it and the kikes will make money from it.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Hasn't been a few other "documentaries" about starlets who ended up all drugged and abused? We had recently a Britney Spears' doc and IICR, her mother allowed her to buy her own apartment when she was 14 and they had no problem with her inviting boys and even grown man there. It was not Brit or media's responsability to protect her, but her own family and they did nothing about it. Same for the younger sister.

Look, I feel bad for them because most of them are just victims of their own parents for not protecting them against an industry that uses them and throw them out. But the problem I have with this is that people use these examples to make a whole norm of the world. Hollywood is full of perverts and I'm sure most actress have been either raped or had to sleep their way up to the top willingly, but that's not as common as people think IRL.

Also, I agree: she should be naming names.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

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Feminism. Not even once.

It's times like this in which i wish we still had the "horrifying" sticker.

 

[Stoneheart]

I hope it wasnt Barney...

 

[66andtwothirds]

now her personality/problems make sense. many such cases in (((hollywood))), sad.

 

[FaramirG]

Hasn't been a few other "documentaries" about starlets who ended up all drugged and abused? We had recently a Britney Spears' doc and IICR, her mother allowed her to buy her own apartment when she was 14 and they had no problem with her inviting boys and even grown man there. It was not Brit or media's responsability to protect her, but her own family and they did nothing about it. Same for the younger sister.

Look, I feel bad for them because most of them are just victims of their own parents for not protecting them against an industry that uses them and throw them out. But the problem I have with this is that people use these examples to make a whole norm of the world. Hollywood is full of perverts and I'm sure most actress have been either raped or had to sleep their way up to the top willingly, but that's not as common as people think IRL.

Also, I agree: she should be naming names.

So many of these parents are absolute monsters. Idk how someone can live with themselves after essentially whoring out their own kid.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

now her personality/problems make sense. many such cases in (((hollywood))), sad.

Sexual abuse and bpd aren't mutually exclusive

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

It would be more stunning to hear that she wasn't raped while working for Disney Channel since Disney, Nick, and all that sort of shit are hives of degeneracy.

 

[Just Here for A and H]

Not surprising. America is literally run by pedophiles, just like every other developed country.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

So many of these parents are absolute monsters. Idk how someone can live with themselves after essentially whoring out their own kid.

By getting pink eye and staph infections after wiping their tears with hundred dollar bills

 

[StevieLasVegas]

Broken record response at this point, but dish out some names or fuck off back to the crackhouse.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Jonas being accused of assault will cause the fans to self-immolate

 

[Devyn]

It would be more stunning to hear that she wasn't raped while working for Disney Channel since Disney, Nick, and all that sort of shit are hives of degeneracy.

More people need to watch An Open Secret to see just how predatory and degenerate the industry really is. I hate even seeing child actors/singers anymore because I assume they're probably being molested.

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I think it's pretty understandable why Kirk Cameron turned to religion after being in that environment

 

[Haramburger]

Even less people are talking about this than Star Trek Discovery Season 3.

She's definitely a B or C-lister in terms of Disney Channel fame. She was only there 2008-2011, and her shows were relatively small-time. We're talking Camp Rock 1 & 2, Princess Protection Program, Sonny with a Chance & As the Bell Rings. She was a Jonas Brothers orbiter, not an "iCarly" or "Hannah Montana." There were Nickelodeon girls being side characters outshining her. She's like Ashlee Simpson, tried to be a female star but stuck in the gravity of other people more talented than her.



Sorry you got raped, it should've got you a better career than this.

I think it's pretty understandable why Kirk Cameron turned to religion after being in that environment

What jewish producer wouldn't want to plunder that boipucci?

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

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

Either the bitch is making shit up to stay "relevant" or some old Jewish fuck stuck his dick in her and she can't say shit for fear of being found dead of an "overdose."
Or maybe it was one of the Jonas brothers, who knows?

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

As we saw with others like Epstein and Weinstein, kike rapists like to have blackmail on hand as an insurance policy. Demi Lovato could name the various Jews (let’s face it, no goy is allowed to partake in these activities and get away with it) but the instant she does, all of the degenerate filth she got herself into would be leaked out and that means she won’t have money for coke ever again, a fate worse than death in her mind.

This is how this shit keeps going on in spite of how obvious it is that it’s happening. The money keeps them in drugs and other vices and the blackmail keeps them from ever stepping forward. It’s always easier to keep your mouth shut unless you’re no longer useful which is how Weinstein got busted. If his movies still made money, you’d still have actresses fawn over him even though he jerked off on their ficus the night before.