Demi Lovato is coming clean about the reasons that pushed her to end her engagement to Max Ehrich last year.
The pop star said that she got engaged to her ex-fiancé for the wrong reasons because she was trying to prove something to the world. The pair had only dated for four months, but Lovato’s 2018 drug overdose was still fresh on her mind.
The “Sorry Not Sorry” singer felt that she needed to send a message to the world and reassure everyone, so saying yes to an engagement appeared to be a good decision at the time to accomplish her goal.
Demi Lovato ‘fooled’ herself getting engaged to Max Ehrich
Ehrich popped the question in March at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and the couple ended things in September. Lovato said she was looking for a “false sense of security.”
She told Entertainment Weekly: “I really had myself fooled because it was the safe and expected thing. Obviously, I cared deeply about the person, but there was something inside of me that was like, ‘I have to prove to the world that I’m okay.”
Lovato went on to say: “Now that I’m not engaged or married, and I’m okay, I’m like, ‘Wow. Isn’t that so much more empowering?”
Demi Lovato does not need Max Ehrich’s engagement ring
The $450,000 engagement ring did not mean much to her either, especially after the relationship went south. She stated: “The second it was off, I was like, ‘You know what? I’m good. I don’t need that. I just don’t need an object on my finger to make me feel like I’ve got my sh*t together. It looks like stability, but it doesn’t mean that it is. And I don’t actually grow through stability. I find that I like living not in chaos or crisis, but in fluidity.”
Demi Lovato’s documentary ‘Dancing with the Devil’ freed her
With her YouTube docuseries, Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, she has addressed some of the things that led her to drugs and alcohol.
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She explained: “Having put that out in front of the camera and knowing that people have seen that, it’s freeing. It’s empowering. It really lets that anger that was inside of me dissolve. I had let go of a lot of the anger before and, but this was kind of just the final send-off, like, okay, I can really heal from this now.”
The documentary has helped Lovato reach her public in a way that she had not done before.