Demi Lovato has revealed her rapist appeared in one of her movies, despite her confiding in “somebody of power” about what had happened to her.
The 28-year-old singer has previously revealed she had been “hooking up” with a guy but didn’t want to have s.e.x with him because she was still a virgin, but he forced himself on her, and after seeking treatment for an eating disorder and addiction issues three years later, she confided in “somebody of power” about what had happened to her.
She recalled: “She said, ‘I don’t think they should be in your movie coming out. That was completely swept under the rug. Nothing was done about it. That person was still in that movie. And the #MeToo movement led Demi to a revelation in 2018. She said: “I realised, oh my gosh, this happens in the industry all the time.
After she was raped, Demi confided only in her mother and a few close friends, and she was left with a sense she was “bad, wrong and dirty”, which caused her eating disorder to spiral.
She said: “I realised when I got to treatment [in 2010] that the reason why my eating disorder progressed so quickly and so badly was that I kept the secret of being raped
However, she admitted: “It didn’t fix anything. All it did was make me feel worse.
But the “Sober” singer felt she had to do so in a bid to take back control. She told Sunday Times magazine: “I use the term ‘trauma re-enactment’. And there’s a sense of agency that I guess I felt when I was the one to call them back and kind of correct the situation, in my eyes.
“Because if I was the one in control, then I was fixing it. Which obviously isn’t the case. Like, what happened still happened. And this is not going to make it any better.
In other news – Video: Police Officers stand by as a man is assaulted inside the police station
The owner of private security officers claims road rage and being called a baboon is what led to him and a group of men assaulting a man in a Mpumalanga police station on Sunday, while at least two police officers simply stood by and watched.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said district commissioner of Ehlanzeni, Major-General Dianah Mashele, has since assembled a team to investigate the conduct of the SAPS members on duty at the White River police station, who did nothing to prevent the assault. Learn more
Source: IOL
