Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato in the makeup shoot for her wedding in 2025.
Born	Demetria Devonne Lovato August 20, 1992 (age 33) Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Nickname	Demi
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, businesswoman
Years active	2002–present
Musical career
Genres	Pop, pop rock, R&B, rock, punk rock, EDM
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano, drums
Label	Island Records, Hollywood Records, Safehouse Records
Website	demilovato.com

Demetria Devonne Lovato (born August 20, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

After appearing in the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she rose to prominence for their role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel musical television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010), as well as the titular character on Sonny With A Chance (2009–2011). The former film's soundtrack included "This Is Me", Demi's duet with Joe Jonas, which peaked in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100.

After signing with Hollywood Records, Demi released their pop-rock debut album, Don't Forget (2008), which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. Its follow-up, Here We Go Again (2009), debuted at number one in the US and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Demi experimented with pop and R&B on her third studio album, Unbroken (2011), which contains the US top-ten single "Skyscraper". Demi returned to a more pop-friendly sound on their fourth studio album, Demi (2013). The album debuted with 110,000 copies sold in the US, her highest first-week sales in the country, and contained the international top-ten song "Heart Attack". Demi's soul-influenced fifth and sixth studio albums, Confident (2015) and Tell Me You Love Me (2017), presented more mature lyrical content than previous works. Demi earned a Grammy Award nomination for Confident, while Tell Me You Love Me became their first album to be certified platinum by the RIAA, and its lead single, "Sorry Not Sorry", became their highest-charting single in the US, peaking at number six, and was certified 5x platinum in the US.

As of 2017, Billboard reported that Demi has sold over two million albums and 20 million singles in the US.

Demi's 2020 singles "Anyone" and "I Love Me" became her first number-one entries on Billboard's Digital Songs chart. Her collaborations "Échame la Culpa" (2017) with Luis Fonsi and "Solo" (2018) with Clean Bandit were international successes, both reaching number one in 17 countries and each certified platinum or higher in at least ten countries, including Diamond certifications in Brazil and Mexico.

After a hiatus, she released her seventh and eighth albums Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over (2021) and HOLY FVCK (2022), which respectively reached numbers two and seven in the US; the latter marked a return to rock-influenced music.

Demi has sold over 24 million records in the United States and has also received various awards, including an MTV Video Music Award, fourteen Teen Choice Awards, five People's Choice Awards, two Latin American Music Awards, and a Guinness World Record; she was included on the Time 100 annual list in 2017. She co-founded the former record label Safehouse Records, under Universal Music Group, with singer Nick Jonas in 2015.

Outside of music, Demi served as a judge and mentor on The X Factor for two seasons, appeared as a recurring character on Glee (2013–2014) and on the sitcom Will & Grace (2020), and voiced Smurfette in the Sony Pictures Animation film Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017). Demi's struggles with an eating disorder and substance abuse have received considerable media attention, in response to which she published the self-help memoir Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year (2013) and released the documentaries Demi Lovato: Stay Strong (2012), Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated (2017), and Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil (2021).

Early life and career beginnings

7-year-old Demi Lovato on Barney & Friends

Demetria Devonne Lovato was born on August 20, 1992, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Dianna De La Garza (née Lee Smith) and engineer and musician Patrick Martin Lovato. They have an older sister named Dallas Lovato; a younger maternal half-sister, actress Madison De La Garza; and an older paternal half-sister, Amber, whom they first spoke to when they were twenty years old.

Demi's parents divorced in mid-1994, shortly after their second birthday. Demi's father was of Mexican descent, with mostly Spanish and Native American ancestors, and came from a family that had been living in New Mexico for generations; he also had distant Portuguese and Jewish ancestry. Their mother is of English and Irish ancestry. Through her father, Demi is a descendant of Civil War Union veteran Francisco Perea and Santa Fe de Nuevo México governor Francisco Xavier Chávez. Demi has stated that through DNA testing she discovered that her genetic background is 85% European including 32% Iberian, 16% Scandinavian, and 14% Irish; 10% Native American, and one percent African.

Demi was brought up in Dallas, Texas. She began playing the piano at age seven and guitar at ten, when she started dancing and acting classes. In 2002, Demi began her acting career on the children's television series Barney & Friends, portraying the role of Angela. Demi appeared on Prison Break in 2006 and on Just Jordan the following year. Demi recalls that due to her acting career, she was bullied and requested homeschooling, through which she eventually received her high-school diploma.

Career

2007–2009: Camp Rock, Don't Forget and Sonny with the Stars

Demi Lovato in December 2008

From 2007 to 2008, Demi Lovato played Charlotte Adams on the Disney Channel short series As the Bell Rings.

Demi auditioned for the channel's television film Camp Rock and series Sonny with a Chance during 2007 and got both roles. During the Camp Rock audition, Disney chairman Gary Marsh asks Demi to sing. She sings Aretha Franklin's "Ain't No Way" and vice president Bob Cavallo is impressed by her singing skills.

Demi got the lead role in Disney's made-for-television film Camp Rock, where she played the part of Mitchie Torries, an aspiring singer. The film premiered on June 20, 2008, to 8.9 million viewers, thus making Demi popular, especially among teenagers.. Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Demi's acting skills were underwhelming and that she "has the knee-jerk smile of someone who is often told she has a great smile".

The film's soundtrack was released three days earlier; however, the music was considered less current than that of High School Musical. It debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, with 188,000 units sold in its first week of release. Demi sang four songs on the soundtrack, including "We Rock" and "This Is Me". The latter, Demi's debut single, debuted at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and later peaked at number nine, marking her first entry on the chart. That summer, Demi signed with Hollywood Records and began her Demi Live! Warm Up Tour before the release of her debut studio album. and appeared on the Jonas Brothers' Burnin' Up Tour.

Demi released her debut album, Don't Forget, on September 23, 2008. "Get Back" was released as the lead single and was followed by "La La Land" and "Don't Forget". They all received moderate success and entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart between number 40 and number 50.

The series Sonny with a Chance, where she plays Sonny Munroe, debuted on February 8, 2009 in America. In June 2009, she received the part of Princess Rosalina in the film Princess Protection Program, alongside Selena Gomez. The film was seen by 9,800,000 viewers. Subsequently, she became a member of Disney Friends for Change. Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and the Jonas Brothers recorded "Send It On", a charity single that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 20. In 2010, she recorded "Make a Wave" with Joe Jonas.

2009–2010: Here We Go Again and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam

In early 2009, Demi announced a new summer tour, which began on June 21 in Hartford, Connecticut and ended on August 24 of the same year in Atlantic City, New Jersey. "Here We Go Again" was released on June 21, 2009 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 108,000 copies sold in its first week. The album was preceded by the single of the same name, released on June 23. It reached number fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The second single, "Remember December", released on November 17, did not enter the Billboard chart (debuted at number 106).

In September 2009, production began on the sequel to Camp Rock, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, which was released on September 3, 2010 and was watched by 8 million viewers.

On April 27, 2010, the Jonas Brothers announced that Demi would be a guest star on their Jonas Brothers Live In Concert Tour. Demi left the tour before its end to enter a specialized clinic to treat her emotional issues. On January 28, 2011, Demi Lovato finished her treatment at the clinic. During an interview on Good Morning America on April 20, 2011, Demi stated that she had been treated for bulimia and self-harm at Timberline Knolls in Illinois.

2011–2012: Unbroken and X-Factor USA

In April 2011, Demi began working on her third studio album, Unbroken, which was released on September 20, 2011. Demi herself described the album as "more pop, more R&B, inspired by the sound of Keri Hilson and Rihanna".

The first single from the album, "Skyscraper", debuted on July 12, 2011 and entered at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. At the 2012 Teen Choice Awards, Demi won both the "Best Female Artist of the Summer" and "Best Twitter Celebrity" categories. She was also nominated and won at the 2012 MTV VMA Awards in the "Best Video With a Message" category with her single Skyscraper. In an interview, the singer stated that her fourth album will be about her, she will start working on it two months after the MTV Video Music Awards. The second single from the third album is "Give Your Heart a Break", and on April 2 the video is published on the singer's Vevo channel.

In May 2012 she was chosen as a judge on the second season of The X Factor USA, alongside Simon Cowell, Britney Spears and L.A. Reid. She became the coach of the "Under 25" and her last remaining artist CeCe Frey managed to place sixth. In March 2013 she announced that she would also be part of the third season of the program alongside Simon Cowell, Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio.

2013–2014: Demi and promotion

In October 2012, Demi began recording her fourth album. The singer announced that the new album could be considered the second part of the previous one, Unbroken, which will use real instruments, moving away from electropop music, and will not use dubstep. She states that the lyrics of the new songs will be more mature than the ones in her previous album. She also published her first book, Stayling Strong, in which she included the most important quotes for her.

On December 25, Demi posted a video on YouTube, where she performed a cover, accompanied by a guitar and a piano, of the song "Angels Among Us", to benefit families in Newtown, affected by the massacre where their children were killed in an elementary school.

On February 12, 2013, on the singer's website, a snippet and the cover of "Heart Attack", the first single from her fourth album of unreleased songs, were published. On February 25, therealdemilovato published the video regarding the audio of the single, and made public for sale also on iTunes. On March 4, "Heart Attack" was released on iTunes, reaching the position number 7. The name and release date of the fourth album were revealed on April 1, 2013. It will be titled Demi and will be released on May 14. On May 7, Demi inserts a link on her Twitter which links to a site where a preview of the album is available to listen. The second single from the album was "Made In The USA", released on July 4.

In August 2013, her song "Heart by Heart" was included in the soundtrack of the film Shadowhunters: City of Bones.

The third single from the album was "Neon Lights"; the video was published on the singer's Vevo channel on November 21. In 12 hours it got more than 2 million views.

On October 23, 2013, her new single, a cover of "Let It Go", was released on iTunes, returning to collaborate with Disney for the soundtrack of the 53rd Disney classic, Frozen. The song, in its original version sung by Idina Menzel, won the Oscar in the category "Best Song"; in turn, the film won the Oscar in the category "Best Animated Film".

At the end of 2013, Demi confirmed that in 2014 she will work on new music and especially on the tour. On February 9, 2014, the Neon Lights Tour began in the United States and Canada. It kept her busy in February, March and April (in the latter she visited South America) and ended on June 1, 2014 at KOKO in London.

In May, during a live chat, Demi announced her fourth single from the album Demi, "Really Don't Care", in collaboration with Cher Lloyd. On May 14, 2014, the lyric video of "Really Don't Care", made by Brazilian fans, was released on VEVO. On May 20, 2014, the band The Vamps announced a duet with Demi Lovato in the song "Somebody to You".

On May 28, 2014, Demi announced a world tour, the Demi World Tour, through a video on her channel. The first dates will be in the United States and Canada, starting on September 6 at the Baltimore Arena in Maryland and ending on October 27 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. She was accompanied on the tour by Christina Perri, MKTO, Kiesza, Becky G, Bea Miller, Andee and Restless Road who opened the various concerts. After a four-month break, the tour restarted on April 17, 2015, in Oceania and Asia, concluding on May 9, 2015.

On August 10, 2014, Demi and Cher Lloyd performed at the Teen Choice Awards with the single "Really Don't Care", during which the singer received two awards: one for the single in the category Choice Summer Song and one for herself in the category Choice Summer Female Artist.

On December 11, 2014, the singer Olly Murs released his new single "Up" in collaboration with Demi Lovato. On December 24, 2014, Demi published the video for "Nightingale" on her channel, which will be part of the reissue of the album Demi, namely Demi (Deluxe).

2015–2016: Confident

Demi Lovato's fifth album, titled Confident, was released on October 16, 2015 by the label Safehouse, in collaboration with Hollywood Records, Island Records and Republic Records, and featured artists such as Iggy Azalea and Sirah. The album was preceded by the release of the first single, "Cool for the Summer", made available on July 1, 2015. The video was released on July 23 and in almost three months from its release it exceeded 100 million views, thus obtaining the Vevo Certification. On August 30, she performed "Cool For The Summer" at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. The song reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and broke the record for the fastest song to reach the top of Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart.

On September 18, Demi released the second single from her new album, the eponymous "Confident". On October 9, the video for the song was released on the singer's Vevo channel.

Also in 2015, she worked as a voice actress in two films: in the animated film Charming, in which she worked alongside Ashley Tisdale and Avril Lavigne, and in Get Smurfy, where she voiced Smurfette. On October 26, 2015, she announced a tour in collaboration with Nick Jonas, the Future Now Tour held in North America throughout the summer of the following year.

On February 6, 2016, the singer announced via Instagram the third single from the album from Confident, "Stone Cold". Meanwhile, on February 15, Demi performed for the first time at the Grammy Awards ceremony, with a tribute to Lionel Richie with the song "Hello", accompanied on the piano by John Legend. On February 23, the video for "Stone Cold" was released on Vevo. Very well received by critics, the singer herself defined it as "the most emotional she has ever shot".

In April 2016, the singer announced that she would sing in the soundtrack of the new Angry Birds movie with a cover of the famous hit "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.

On July 1, 2016, she released a new single, "Body Say", making it available only for the streaming service. She sang the song live for the first time during the first date of the Future Now Tour on June 29.

On December 6, 2016, the singer was nominated for the first time in her career for the prestigious Grammy Award in the category of best pop vocal album, thanks to Confident.

2017–2019: Tell Me You Love Me and new collaborations

In February 2017, Demi executive produced a documentary, titled Beyond Silence, which follows three individuals and their experiences with mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety.

In 2017, Demi was featured in two new collaborations: "No Promises" with Cheat Codes and "Instruction" with Jax Jones and Stefflon Don. On May 5, 2017, Demi announced the release of a documentary about her life, titled Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated. On May 8, 2017, she announced a collaboration with sportswear brand Fabletics to support the United Nations initiative, Girl Up.

On July 11, 2017, Demi released a new single, titled "Sorry Not Sorry". It is the lead single from her sixth studio album. The album, Tell Me You Love Me, was released on September 29, 2017.

On October 17, 2017, the documentary Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated was published on YouTube. In November 2017, Demi appeared in a song with Luis Fonsi, "Échame la Culpa", which achieved great success worldwide.

On February 26, 2018, the singer's sixth world tour, called Tell Me You Love Me World Tour, began in San Diego, America. She later collaborated with DJ Khaled on the single "I Believe", which was taken from the soundtrack of the film A Wrinkle in Time.

In May 2018, two collaborations saw the participation of the singer, one with Christina Aguilera titled "Fall in Line", and one with Clean Bandit titled "Solo". Demi Lovato performs with Aguilera at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards, while wearing a brace due to an accident she had a few days before the performance.

On June 21, 2018, Demi released a new single titled "Sober". Following an overdose, she temporarily retired from performing on July 24, 2018 to take care of herself and her mental health.

2020–2021: Dancing with the Devil... The Art of Starting Over

After a long hiatus lasting a year and a half, Demi Lovato returned to the music scene on January 26, 2020, when she performed live at the annual Grammy Awards ceremony with the unreleased "Anyone", written only four days before the unpleasant experience in which the singer risked losing her life. On March 6, she released the single "I Love Me". In the same period, Demi Lovato performed during the Super Bowl, one of the main American sporting events, singing the American national anthem. On April 17, 2020, the single "I'm Ready" by Sam Smith, in collaboration with Demi Lovato, was also released. It was included in Smith's album Love Goes.

The artist participated in four episodes of the television series Will & Grace and starred in the Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, also contributing to the soundtrack with the song "In the Mirror". On September 10, 2020, Marshmello's single "OK Not To Be OK" was released. On October 1, the single "Still Have Me" was released. Its release had been anticipated the previous day on Demi's social networks. It was followed by "Commander In Chief", a protest song in which the then President of the United States of America Donald Trump was openly attacked, a few weeks before the US presidential elections. In November 2020, Demi hosted the People Choice Awards. In December, Demi took part in the remix of "Monsters", together with All Time Low and Blackbear, and collaborated with rapper Jeezy in the song "My Reputation", contained in the rapper's album The Recession 2.

In January 2021, Demi Lovato announced the release of Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, a four-episode documentary produced by YouTube that was broadcast in March. In January 2021, she performed during the inauguration ceremony of the 46th President of the United States of America Joe Biden. On February 4, 2021, she collaborated with Sam Fischer on the single "What Other People Say", taken from his new album. In the following weeks, the artist announced the release of her seventh album Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over, released on April 2, 2021, along with the single "Dancing with the Devil", the soundtrack of the documentary of the same name, with the related video which recounts the tragic experience lived by Demi in 2018. A few days later, the song "Met Him Last Night", with the participation of the American singer Ariana Grande, was sent to the radio as a single. Demi later collaborated with rapper G-Eazy on his single "Breakdown".

2022–2024: Holy Fvck and Revamped

After having made known her intention to return to interpreting music with a rock sound, Demi Lovato announced the release of her eighth studio album Holy Fvck for August 2022. The lead single, titled "Skin of My Teeth", was released on June 10, 2022, followed by the second single, titled "Substance", with which Demi approached a pop punk sound.

A few days after the album's release, which took place on August 19, Demi started the Holy Fvck Tour, with dates in South and North America during the fall of 2022. In 2023, she released "Still Alive", a single co-written by Mike Shinoda and the leading song of the soundtrack of Scream VI.

On September 15, 2023, her first remix album Revamped was released. It contains ten of her own songs reinterpreted in a rock key.

2025–present: It's Not That Deep

In October 2024, Lovato revealed that she was working on her next studio album, describing it as "not rock at all": "I've spent a year exploring with my sound". She added that she wrote "nothing but love songs and sexy songs because I'm in this really good place".

On August 1, 2025, Lovato released "Fast" as the lead single off her upcoming ninth album. On September 12, 2025 after lead, Lovato released "Here All Night" which is second single from upcoming ninth album. Next month on October 10, 2025, Lovato released third single titled "Kiss". Next Year on March 31, Lovato will release her own cookbook One Plate at a Time.

Artistry

Demi Lovato in a photoshoot for Vanity Fair promoting her fifth album Confident, 2015

Influences

Lovato has frequently cited "power vocalists" such as Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Whitney Houston, and Aretha Franklin as major musical and vocal influences. Lovato says, "I had a lot of respect for Whitney Houston, and Christina Aguilera." About her admiration for Clarkson, Demi says, "I just thought she was a great role model. I feel like she set a really great example and she was extremely talented." Lovato also said that she "was obsessed with Kelly Clarkson" as a child, and she even had an AOL username, "Little Kelly", inspired by the singer.

Her other influences or inspirations include Britney Spears, Rihanna, JoJo, Keri Hilson, Jennifer Lopez, Gladys Knight, Alexz Johnson, Billie Holiday, the Spice Girls, and Billy Gilman. About Gilman she said, "We had the same voice range when I was young. I would practice to his songs all the time." In her teens, Lovato listened to metal, including bands such as the Devil Wears Prada, Job for a Cowboy, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, and Bring Me the Horizon. She has said that John Mayer's songwriting has in particular been a "huge influence" on hers, and that following the release of Unbroken, her musical style shifted towards hip hop and R&B. Upon the release of the song "Without a Fight" by country music singer Brad Paisley featuring Lovato, she cited the country genre as a lifelong strong musical influence of hers, as she "grew up listening to country" and her mom "was a country singer".

Lovato's The Neon Lights Tour was "inspired by Beyoncé" and specifically her 2013 self-titled visual album in regard to the visuals shown onscreen. Moreover, Lovato revealed that her sixth studio album, Tell Me You Love Me, was inspired by Aguilera. Lovato said "I grew up listening to Christina Aguilera. She was one of my idols growing up. She still is. Her voice is incredible, and in Stripped you really got to hear that. I think it was her breakout album that really transformed her into the icon that she is today. So that inspired me … she really inspired this album. I was even inspired by the black and white artwork!"

Voice

Some sources regard Lovato as a mezzo-soprano and her singing voice has been widely acclaimed. Nick Levine of Digital Spy, commenting on her vocals on Don't Forget, stated, "she's certainly a stronger singer than the Jonas Brothers. In fact, her full-bodied vocal performances are consistently impressive." Becky Brain of Idolator wrote that Lovato has a "killer voice and the A-list material to put it to good use". According to Sophie Schillaci of The Hollywood Reporter, the singer "has a voice that can silence even the harshest of critics. Something not often found in her peers." In a review of Lovato's sophomore studio album Here We Go Again, Jeff Miers from The Buffalo News wrote, "Unlike so many of her Disney-fied peers, Lovato can really sing...[and it's] refreshing she doesn't need Auto-Tune to mask any lack of natural ability."

Upon working with Lovato on her third studio album Unbroken, Ryan Tedder stated that she "blew me out of the water vocally! I had no idea how good her voice is. She's one of the best singers I've ever worked with. Literally, that good... I mean, she's a Kelly Clarkson-level vocalist. And Kelly has a set of pipes." He also commented on their work together on the song "Neon Lights" from Lovato's fourth studio album, saying, "She, in pop music, has one of the biggest ranges, possibly the highest full voice singer I've ever worked with." Tamsyn Wilce from Alter the Press commented on her vocals on Demi, stating "it shows just how strong her vocal cords are and the variation of styles that she can completely work to make her own."

In a review of the Neon Lights Tour, Mike Wass from Idolator commented "you don't need shiny distractions when you can belt out songs like [Lovato] and connect with the crowd on such an emotional level." In a review of the Demi World Tour, Marielle Wakim from Los Angeles Magazine commented on Lovato's vocals, stating, "For those who haven't bothered to follow Lovato's career, let's get something out of the way: the girl can sing. Get over your fear of being judged by your Facebook friends and Spotify her discography, because you're going to have the last laugh five years down the road (probably sooner) when she wins a Grammy. At 22 years old, her vocal range is astounding." She went on to further describe her vocals as "spectacular".

Lovato was lauded for her performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl LIV in 2020. Patrick Ryan of USA Today commended her for delivering a "flawless performance" and "reminding us she's one of the best vocalists in the industry today." He went on to note that "she hit all the high notes with ease" and ultimately "even added some of her own riffs" which he says resulted in "a rendition that was uniquely and phenomenally hers."

Personal life

Residence

On August 20, 2010, her 18th birthday, Demi Lovato purchased a 2.25 million Mediterranean-style house in Stheirman Oaks, Los Angeles for her family; she described giving to her family the "best present" they had received. However, she decided to live in a "sober house" in Los Angeles after leaving rehab in January 2011. In September 2016, Demi also purchased a Laurel Canyon home in Los Angeles for $8.3 million, which she sold in June 2020 for $8.25 million. In September 2020, Demi purchased a Studio City home in Los Angeles for $7 million.

Hobbies

Demi started training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a martial art derived from jujutsu, in 2016. As of 2019, she is ranked as a blue belt.

Mental health and substance abuse

Demi had suffered from bulimia nervosa, self-harm, and being bullied before her first stint in rehab at age 18. In April 2011, Demi became a contributing editor for Seventeen magazine, penning an article that described her struggles. In March 2012, MTV aired a documentary, Demi Lovato: Stay Strong, about her rehab and recovery. She began work on her fourth studio album the following month. In January 2013, it was reported that Demi had been living in a sober-living facility in Los Angeles for over a year because she felt it was the best way to avoid returning to her addiction and eating disorder. Demi celebrated the five-year anniversary of her sobriety on March 15, 2017.

In her 2017 YouTube documentary Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated, Demi revealed that her treatment at Timberline Knolls had not been entirely successful, stating that she still struggled with alcoholism and a cocaine addiction in the year following her stay in the treatment center and further admitting that she was in fact under the influence of cocaine while being interviewed about her sobriety for Demi Lovato: Stay Strong. She stated, "I wasn't working my program. I wasn't ready to get sober. I was sneaking it on planes, sneaking it in bathrooms, sneaking it throughout the night. Nobody knew."

Demi also stated that her drug and alcohol addiction not only caused her to nearly overdose several times, but later began to impact her ability to perform live and promote her Unbroken album, referencing a 2012 performance on American Idol where she was severely hungover. After her management team had expressed their intentions to leave her, Demi agreed to resume treatment and counseling for her addiction, leading to her move to a sober-living facility in Los Angeles with roommates and responsibilities to help her overcome her drug and alcohol problems. Although she had previously stated that she was entirely done with hard drugs such as heroin, Lovato revealed in March 2021 that she was not completely sober; she drank alcohol and smoked marijuana in moderation at that point, a choice that many of her friends openly disagreed with. She decided on moderation as she felt she was setting herself up for failure if she told herself she was never going to drink or smoke again. Demi said it was because it had been drilled into her that "one drink was equivalent to a crack pipe". This changed the following December when she abandoned her "California sober ways" and declared herself "sober sober".

On June 21, 2018, Demi released the single "Sober", in which she revealed she had relapsed following six years of sobriety. On July 24, 2018, she was rushed to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after emergency services were called to her home due to an opioid overdose She was reported to be stable and recovering later in the day. Lovato was reported to have overdosed on oxycodone laced with fentanyl and was revived with naloxone. She was hospitalized for two weeks and subsequently entered an in-patient rehab facility. In December 2018, Demi took to Twitter to dismiss rumors about her overdose and went on to thank her fans, writing: "If I feel like the world needs to know something, I will tell them MYSELF. All my fans need to know is I'm working hard on myself, I'm happy and clean and I'm SO grateful for their support." She went on to add that someday she would "tell the world what exactly happened, why it happened and what my life is like today.. but until I'm ready to share that with people please stop prying and making up shit that you know nothing about. I still need space and time to heal."

Demi later revealed in a 2020 interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that her worsened struggles with bulimia in 2018 contributed to her eventual drug overdose, as she relapsed three months prior to the incident due to being extremely unhappy. Lovato attributed these struggles to the extreme measures that her then-manager, Phil McIntyre, took to control what she ate. Lovato also explained that, along with the controlling nature of her management team, they did not provide her with the help she needed: "People checking what my orders at Starbucks were on my bank statements... just little things like that... it led me to be really unhappy and my bulimia got really bad and I asked for help and I didn't receive the help that I needed." In the same interview, Lovato revealed that her thought process on the night she relapsed following six years of sobriety was as follows: "I'm six years sober and I'm miserable. I'm even more miserable than I was when I was drinking. Why am I sober?" When Demi confronted her management team about her thoughts, they responded with, "You're being very selfish, this would ruin things for not just you but for us as well," which she says made her feel "completely abandoned" due to triggering her underlying abandonment issues with her birth father, and so she "drank that night".

In 2021, Demi said she had initially accepted her bipolar diagnosis and shared this in 2011 because it explained her erratic behavior, but later came to believe it was inaccurate: "I was acting out when I was 18 for many reasons, but I know now from multiple different doctors that it was not because I was bipolar. I had to grow the fuck up". Demi also stated that the diagnosis has been revised to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Sexuality and gender

Demi describes her sexuality as fluid, and has said she is open to finding love with someone of any gender. In July 2020, she labeled herself queer in a social media statement mourning the death of her Glee co-star Naya Rivera. On March 27, 2021, Demi came out as pansexual and sexually fluid during The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. She stated: "I've always known I was hella queer, but I have fully embraced it". In the same interview, she called herself "just too queer" to date men at the time. She also expressed feeling proud of belonging to the "alphabet mafia", referring to the LGBT community.

On May 19, 2021, Demi publicly came out as non-binary and announced the decision to change her gender pronouns to them/them, stating that "this has come after a lot of healing and self-reflective work. I'm still learning and coming into myself; I don't claim to be an expert or a spokesperson. Sharing this with you now opens another level of vulnerability for me". She had previously come out as non-binary to her family and friends towards the end of 2020. In April 2022, Demi changed her pronouns to additionally include she/her, and later described herself as a "fluid person" who had started to feel "more feminine". That September, she reiterated that she still feels very comfortable with they/them.

Relationships

Demi's first love was a boy named Scott Hughes, when she was thirteen and not famous at the time. Her song "Mr. Hughes" is about him.

Demi's first serious boyfriend was Jonathan Fryar, who she dated in 2007, while she was living in Texas with their family, she dated a guy named Jonathan Fryar, later on in the same year she started dating Cody Linley In 2008, she dated Alex DeLeon: this relationship inspired two songs, "Catch Me" by Demi and "Crown" by his band The Caps.

In 2009, Demi dated Miley Cyrus's brother Trace Cyrus for a month, and she were also rumored to have dated and wrote her song "Stop the World" about Alex Noyes From the band Honor Society.

In 2010, Demi briefly dated Joe Jonas. In the same year, Demi's on and off relationship with Wilmer Valderrama began. In mid 2016, Demi and Wilmer Valderrama announced that they broke up, but are still best friends.

In 2017, Demi dated UFC athlete Guiltheirme Vasconcelos from January to July. In late 2018, she briefly dated Henry Alexander Levy until March 2019. She then dated Austin Wilson from November until December 2019.

Demi dated Max Ehrich from March to November 2020, the two were officially engaged, but eventually broke off the engagement shortly after announcing it.

In early August 2022, People reported that Demi was in a "happy and healthy relationship" with a male musician. On August 20, Canadian musician Jordan "Jutes" Lutes announced the relationship in an Instagram post marking Demi's 30th birthday, after they worked together on her eighth studio album, Holy Fvck. On December 16, 2023, Demi Lovato and Jordan Lutes announced their engagement. The couple was married on May 25, 2025, at the Bellosguardo Estate in Santa Barbara, California.

Family

Demi had a puppy named Buddy who they described as their son. Soon after, he died following a tragic accident. Demi got a puppy named Batman shortly after Buddy's death. Demi's newest puppy is named Cinderella.

Demi had a complicated relationship with their late estranged father Patrick. In 2009, she covered "Daughters" by John Mayer on the Burnin' Up Tour, saying she could relate to it. In 2010, Patrick did a series of interviews to benefit himself from their fame which made him the subject of their songs "For the Love of a Daughter" and "Shouldn't Come Back". He died from alcohol abuse on June 22, 2013, at the age of fifty-three. Shortly after his passing, Demi revealed he had been suffering from a mental illness, and that in his honor they created The Lovato Treatment Scholarship Program. The song from Demi's fifth album Confident entitled "Father" is also about her father. She got a tattoo of roman numeral "Ⅲ" or number 3 in memory of her father's passing. She also wrote a song about him called "Butterfly" off of their seventh studio album, Dancing With The Devil... The Art Of Starting Over.

Friends

Demi was best friends with Selena Gomez, whom they met at the auditions for Barney & Friends in 1999. However, while being interviewed by Complex, Demi said that they are no longer close and they drifted apart because she rarely hangs out with celebrities.

Demi is best friends with Matthew Scott Montgomery and Sirah.

Fans

Demi's fans are known as "Lovatics": the word is a blend of Lovato and fanatic. Over the years, Demi's fans have grown increasingly supportive. Lovatics won MTV's "The Big & Best of 2012: Last Fans Standing" and "Favorite Music Fan Following" at the People's Choice Awards in 2014.

Demi was an early adopter on social media, and has developed incredible support across her various networks, allowing her to engage and communicate directly with her fans across the globe. As of June 2025, Demi's Facebook page has over 32M followers, her Twitter handle has over 51M followers, and her Instagram handle has amassed 153M followers, making her one of the most prominent and most followed people on the said platforms.

Endorsements

Demi at the Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg in July 2017

From 2014 to 2016, Demi was the face of the Skechers footwear brand. She partnered with Shazam on the Demi World Tour in 2014. In addition, she became the first-ever brand ambassador of the makeup brand N.Y.C. New York Color in 2015. That year, Demipromoted The Radiant Collection for Tampax "to help encourage young women to wear what they want regardless of what time of the month it is". In June 2016, Demi partnered with streaming service Tidal to livestream the first date of her Future Now Tour with Nick Jonas. Since 2017, Demi partnered with the women's athleisure brand Fabletics to release activewear collections to raise money for organizations such as United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign, for "the world's most marginalized adolescent girls", and COVID-19 relief efforts. Also in 2017, she performed at a dinner hosted by the jewelry company, Bulgari, to celebrate the opening of the brand's Fifth Avenue flagship store in New York City.

Demi became a brand ambassador for the JBL audio company in 2017 and for the mug company Ember. In 2018, they starred in CORE Hydration's "Finding Balance" campaign, after becoming an initial investor of CORE Hydration after first discovering the brand in 2015. Jaguar, JBL, Lyft, Ferrari, TikTok and Samsung products have been featured in Demi's music videos. She also appeared in commercials for Skechers, Acuvue, Apple, and Fabletics. In 2019, Dior used Demi's song "Only Forever" from her album Tell Me You Love Me in a series of commercials and social media posts to promote the brand's "Dior Forever" makeup collection. Since September 2020, Demi has served as a Mental Health Spokesperson for the online and mobile therapy company Talkspace. In March 2021, Dior used Demi's song "Confident" to promote their new "Dior Forever" foundation in a series of social media campaigns.

Style

Demi is known for dark, edgy and rocker sense of style, while also having the known trademark of dyeing her hair different colours, from black to pink, and for her wide variety of tattoos that she has.

Style evolution

Hair evolution

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Religion

Demi has explored Christianity at various points in her life. She has described herself as very spiritual rather than very religious and confirmed their belief in God. She reads the Bible and occasionally goes to a Southern Baptist church. She has always credited God with helping her through her tough times and helping to shape her career. During an interview on Ashley Graham's podcast, shr said, "You're not supposed to do this, but I made this pact with God. I was much younger and I was just like look, 'God like if you make me famous, if you make me a singer and give me Grammys and stuff, I will do your work'".

Realizing that she needed to hold up her end of the bargain, she has always been very open in discussing her struggles, like bullying, mental health and eating disorders.

In an interview with Zane Lowe for their song "Anyone" that features lyrics questioning "the power of faith and why am I praying", she described how she had stayed away from church for many years, because she did not feel welcome due to the lifestyle that she was leading, and she was also questioning her sexuality, saying that she tried to seek God through her experiences, whether that's through their relationships or substances. She said that she had to realize that the God that she was seeking and the God that she loves is available 24/7 and is always at an arm's length and is constantly with her. She also said that she needs to focus on herself, her relationship with her own self and her relationship with God. She also credited Scooter Braun, her manager, with helping her to find a place of worship that would understand her questioning her sexuality and accepts them for who she is no matter who she loves, and there's no judgment, adding that she "heard God clearer than I heard him in a long time" when Scooter took her there for the first time.

In addition to attending church, she also has tattoos that have a religious nature, like a cross on the side of her hand and an angel being carried by doves, to name some.

Equality

Demi is an LGBT rights activist. In June 2013 when DOMA was repealed, she tweeted "Gay, straight, lesbian, bi... No one is better than anyone else. What an incredible day for California AND for equality". Demi has previously showed her support for the LGBT community: "I believe in gay marriage, I believe in equality. I think there's a lot of hypocrisy with religion. But I just found that you can have your own relationship with God, and I still have a lot of faith". In May 2014, she was named lead performers for NYC Pride Week and Grand Marshal of the LA Pride Parade, where she later filmed the music video for "Really Don't Care". She became the face of Human Rights Campaign's America's for Marriage Equality in 2015. In June 2016, she participated in a video released by the Human Rights Campaign honoring the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting. Her work as an LGBT rights activist has been recognized by GLAAD which awarded them the GLAAD Media Vanguard Award in 2016.

She also identifies as a feminist. In a 2017 interview with Dolly magazine, she explained that "Feminism doesn't have to mean burning bras and hating men" but instead "standing up for gender equality and trying to empower our youth and showing women that you can embrace your sexuality and you deserve to have confidence and you don't need to conform to society's views on what women should be or how you should dress".

Philanthropy and activism

In May 2009, Demi was awarded Honorary Ambassador of Education by the American Partnership For Eosinophilic Disorders. As part of her involvement with the environmental organization Disney's Friends for Change, Demi, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and the Jonas Brothers recorded the charity's theme song "Send It On" in 2009. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 20. The proceeds from the song were directed to environmental charities to the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund. Demi and Joe Jonas recorded another song for the charity, "Make a Wave", in March 2010. Demi is also the spokesperson for the Join the Surge Campaign!, DoSomething.Org, and Joining the Surge by Clean & Clear, the latter of which is a national campaign that empowers teenagers to take action in their communities.

Demi was featured in a January 2010 public service announcement for Voto Latino to promote the organization's "Be Counted" campaign for the 2010 United States Census. In October 2010, she served as the spokeswoman for the anti-bullying organization PACER and appeared on America's Next Top Model to speak out against bullying. Demi was also part of the "A Day Made Better" School Advocacy Campaign, and has supported DonateMyDress.org, Kids Wish Network, Love Our Children USA, ST. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and City of Hope. In April 2012, Demi became a contributing editor for Seventeen magazine, where she discussed her personal struggles, directed towards teenage girls. In October, she was named the new Ambassador of Mean Stinks, an anti-bullying campaign focused on eliminating bullying among girls.

On December 23, 2011, Demi posted a message on Twitter criticizing her former network for airing episodes of Shake It Up and So Random! which featured characters making jokes about eating disorders. Disney Channel publicity officials quickly took action and apologized to Demi, then removed those episodes from the network's airing cycle and video on demand sources, after further criticism in the wake of Demi's message to the network's public relations account.

In May 2013, Demi was cited for their dedication to mentoring teens and young adults with mental-health problems at a National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day hosted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Washington.

In June 2016, she signed an open letter from Billboard urging gun reform and performed at the March for Our Lives anti-gun violence rally in Washington, D.C. in March 2018.

In September 2017, Demi was named a Global Citizen ambassador for supporting the mental health of thousands of children displaced within Iraq and their communities and helped fund the expansion of a Save the Children pilot program, Healing and Education through the Arts, to violence-scarred young people living around Kirkuk and Saladin Governorate, Iraq.

In March 2017, she was honored with the Artistic Award of Courage by The Jane and Terry Semel Institute for their efforts to fight mental health stigma. In April 2020, she joined a mental health campaign in support of Irish charity SpunOut.ie to launch The Mental Health Fund which is raising money for mental health support.

In May 2020, she condemned police brutality and the officers responsible for the killing of George Floyd and the shooting of Breonna Taylor. She also shared resources to support the Black Lives Matter movement and black-owned businesses and denounced white privilege.

Awards and nominations

Demi Lovato has won various awards, including an award at the MTV Video Music Awards, one award at the ALMA Awards, five People's Choice Awards, a Billboard Women in Music award, a Guinness World Record and fourteen Teen Choice Awards. Lovato has received two Grammy Award nominations, four Billboard Music Awards nominations and three Brit Award nominations.

Discography

Main article: Discography

• Don't Forget (2008)
• Here We Go Again (2009)
• Unbroken (2011)
• Demi (2013)
• Confident (2015)
• Tell Me You Love Me (2017)
• Dancing With The Devil...The Art of Starting Over (2021)
• HOLY FVCK (2022)

Filmography

Main article: Filmography

• Barney & Friends (2002-2004)
• As The Bell Rings (2007-2008)
• Camp Rock (2008)
• Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009)
• Princess Protection Program (2009)
• Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010)
• Sonny With A Chance (2009-2011)
• Stay Strong (2012)
• The X Factor (2012-2013)
• Glee (2013-2014)
• Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
• Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated (2017)
• Charming (2018)
• Will & Grace (2020)
• Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
• Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil (2021)
• Child Star (2024)
• Tow (2025)

Tours

Headlining

• Demi Lovato: Live in Concert (2009–2010)
• A Special Night with Demi Lovato (2011–2013)
• The Neon Lights Tour (2014)
• Demi World Tour (2014–2015)
• Tell Me You Love Me World Tour (2018)
• Holy Fvck Tour (2022)

Co-headlining

• Future Now Tour (2016) (with Nick Jonas)

Promotional

• Demi Live! Warm Up Tour (2008)
• An Evening with Demi Lovato (2011)

Opening act

• Jonas Brothers – Burning Up Tour (2008)
• Avril Lavigne – The Best Damn Tour (2008)
• Jonas Brothers – Jonas Brothers World Tour (2009)
• Jonas Brothers – Live in Concert (2010)
• Enrique Iglesias – Sex and Love Tour (2014)

Gallery

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006

External links

• Official website
• Official store
• Demi Lovato on YouTube
• Demi Lovato on Spotify
• Demi Lovato on Apple Music
• Demi Lovato on Facebook
• Demi Lovato on Instagram
• Demi Lovato on Twitter
• Demi Lovato on Snapchat