On Thursday (Feb. 5), Demi Lovato got candid with Ellen Degeneres about her battle with addiction, substance abuse, and an unknown eating disorder. In July 2018, the “Fall in Line” singer suffered from an accidental heroin overdose that was laced with the deadly fentanyl narcotic. Following her downward spiral into drug abuse, the 27-year-old singer/songwriter was unsure if she would be able to maintain a career as a musician. Now, Lovato is being more transparent than ever about her journey during her most recent interview on The Ellen Show.  Kevin Winter/Getty Images

According to Lovato, she and her team were constantly at odds due to their aggressive food monitoring tactics that eventually led to her abusing drugs. During the interview, Lovato revealed how her brutal her team was in regards to her eating habits, stating:

“If I was in my hotel room at night, they would take the phone out of the hotel room so I couldn’t call room service, or if there was fruit in my room they took it out because that’s extra sugar. We’re not talking about brownies and cookies and candies and stuff like that, it was fruit.”

The Glee actress then went on to detail how her team members’ over-controlling tactics led to her questioning her sobriety, saying:

“So I was stuck in this unhappy position and here I am sober and I’m thinking to myself, ‘I’m six years sober but I’m miserable.'” Lovato continued, “I’m even more miserable than I was when I was drinking. Why am I sober?”

When she attempted to express how her management’s micromanagement was affecting her, she was told that she was being “selfish” and that her eating habits could potentially “ruin everything not only for herself but for all of those around her.” All of this aggression eventually led to Lovato relapsing on drugs and alcohol and her eventual 2018 overdose that required her to stay at Cedars Sinai Medical Center for a total of two weeks. 

Now, Demi Lovato is standing tall and speaking on the experiences that have allowed her to display a level of resilience rarely seen in the music industry. Check out the videos of Demi Lovato detailing how her eating disorder led her down a dark path of substance abuse and addiction in the video provided below. 

As someone who has a past involving drug and alcohol addiction, one would think Wendy Williams would have a bit more compassion for Justin Bieber. The singer revealed in the most recent episode of his Seasons documentary that he struggled with substance abuse. “There was a time when I was sipping lean, popping pills, doing Molly, shrooms, everything,” he said. “My security would come into my room at night to check my pulse. People don’t know how serious it got. It was legit crazy, scary. I was waking up in the morning and the first thing I was doing was popping pills and smoking a blunt and starting my day. It just got scary.”

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Wendy addressed the revelation on her show during her infamous Hot Topics segment. “As soon as I heard it I was like, I don’t care,” Wendy said. “This boy has handlers. This boy has millions of dollars. This boy has mom and dad. He’s got Scooter Braun. He’s got his record label. Why should I care that he got hiccupped? I saw who he was hanging out with in the early days. I’m not surprised he was on lean, smoking weed at age 13.”

She then went on to say that the singer was a young, rich, and famous artist who rejected the authority figures in his life. “He tore up the green room here, I don’t have to tell you about that. He punched my John Anderson,” she said of her longtime staffer. “Everyone around here. But it was Scooter and his father that made him go upstairs and straighten up that green room.”

Wendy admitted that she hasn’t been keeping up with Bieber’s documentary because she doesn’t really care. “He’s decided that he wanted to stop doing drugs because he thought he was gonna die…duh!” she exclaimed. Check out Wendy’s rant about Bieber around the 12:00 minute mark below. 

The majority of Justin Bieber‘s life has been captured on camera, but there’s still a lot we don’t know about him. The popstar is pulling back the curtain even further with his YouTube Originals docuseries, Seasons. The ten-part series follows the often-bumpy road to Bieber’s new album, which arrives next week. He spent the past few years away from the spotlight and now he is opening up about why he had to do this. 

Seasons‘ fifth episode, titled “The Dark Season”, explores the various health issues that Bieber has had to deal with. It starts out with 25-year-old talking about how history of drug addiction. “There was a time when I was sipping lean, popping pills, doing Molly, shrooms, everything,” he says. His substance abuse took such a toll on him that he reached a point where he felt “like dying.” “My security would come into my room at night to check my pulse,” he details. “People don’t know how serious it got. It was legit crazy, scary. I was waking up in the morning and the first thing I was doing was popping pills and smoking a blunt and starting my day. It just got scary.” This served as a turning point and led him on his road to sobriety. 

While Biebs is off the drugs, he is still struggling with Lyme disease and Epstein-barr, a virus linked to mono. Both of these ailments have caused him a drastic decrease in energy levels, and necessitated various tests and treatments. After all these heavy topics, the “Yummy” singer ends the episode on an inspirational note. “I’m committed to getting better and committed to doing whatever I have to do, whether it’s inconvenient or not, because I know ultimately it’s not only for me,” he states. “Being the best me is gonna help me be the best husband, the best father, the best friend that I can possibly be. And for all the fans that want to enjoy the music that I make. I can’t do it if I’m not healthy. I haven’t been healthy for a long time.”

A random accusation became the talk of the world after Orlando Brown shared a video of himself to social media. In the clip, the actor seemed to be walking through a market or a store and while talking into the camera, he offered up some perplexing information. “Nick, I let you suck my d*ck,” Orlando revealed. “Okay? Fine, I said it. I let Nick [Cannon] suck my d*ck. And I liked it, it was okay. Nick, you sucked my d*ck. But everybody knows you did it as a female.”

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The left-field accusation spread like wildfire until Cannon finally responded. He decided to take the mature route and instead of attacking his fellow actor, Cannon stated that he was praying for his “brother.” He also added that he’d never met Orlando before. In a recent interview with VladTV, Cannon detailed why he decided to issue a “teachable moment” response instead of going off as many others would have.

“When I look at it I [ask], how did we abandon such a talented young dude?” Cannon said. He named a few of Orlando’s acting gigs and called him brilliant. “I used to really watch that kid and love that kid. You see him out on little red carpets and stuff and it’s [like] yo, this kid is poppin’! He gon’ be somebody. And then, you slowly see this turn, whatever it is, I’ve heard various things. Like I said, I don’t even know dude, but you hear whether it’s substance abuse or psychiatric disorders, just hard times and he’s not the only one.”

Cannon mentioned Underclassman, the film he produced and starred in, and noted that “three or four of the young actors in there committed suicide.” He then partially blamed the expectations from the industry for the fall of many young artists before posing a question to Vlad. He said he’d seen the interview Vlad conducted with Orlando and wanted to know where he drew the line because it could be viewed as exploiting Orlando Brown while knowing that something is wrong with him.

Vlad said it was a fine line, and that what happens on camera isn’t an act because Orlando is the same on and off-camera. Nick didn’t doubt it and added that he knows what a manic episode looks like and while at one moment someone could be viewed as a genius, in another they can begin to hallucinate or become schizophrenic. 

“It’s so dangerous as they’re making you laugh in one moment, and the next they’re jumping off of something or they’re slitting their wrists because they don’t have control of their neurons and how fast they’re interacting,” Nick stated. “It’s a little bit more complex and it gets deeper but I can pick up on mental illness probably better than most just ’cause I’ve dealt with it all my life.” Watch his clip below.