While her bulimia symptoms had been obvious, her eating disorder had become harder to recognise when it took on a more covert form: overexercising and extreme dieting. She explained that as a result, she had convinced herself she was recovering.

“When you don’t have people that know the signs around you… like, what I think I really needed was someone to come in and saying like, ‘Hey, I think you need to look into how much you’re working out,’ like, maybe three times a day is excessive for working out,” the singer said.

“Like, there were days when I lived at the gym, and I would take business meetings at the gym on my breaks from my workouts,” she continued. “And I’d be gross, but at least I didn’t have to leave and shower and I could go right back into my workout. I’d eat a meal, go workout, eat a meal, go workout. And it’s like, that’s just not happiness to me, that’s not freedom.”

Demi Lovato’s message about her recovery journey from addiction is so empowering