Demi Lovato was doing lines of coke like a pro says eyewitness

Publish date: 2024-07-28

43725, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Wednesday August 18, 2010. Demi Lovato walks into her NYC hotel wearing a casual shirt-jeans outfit and leaves in a bedazzling sequined dress and heels! The Disney star was seen heading to the film premiere of Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam with the Jonas Brothers. Photograph: PacificCoastNews.com

The more we hear about Demi Lovato’s “breakdown” the more it seems like Demi was in much bigger trouble than her parents and handlers realized. Even now, the “official” story of Demi’s “treatment” is PR-friendly, and her handlers are trying to make it sound like the girl just has some emotional problems and she needs some sleep. Followers of blind items and fans of the nastier gossip have felt pretty strongly that Demi was into some really hardcore sh-t – cocaine, binge drinking, sex with Wilmer Valderrama, and probably much more. Life & Style has a new story in this week’s issue about Demi’s cocaine abuse (back when she was 17 years old), and they’ve gotten “eyewitness” testimony:

The intense pressure on Demi Lovato reached a breaking point when reps for the young star announced she “left her tour to seek medical treatment for emotional and physical issues she has dealt with for some time,” issues such as cutting and eating disorders.

Now, new eyewitnesses confirm to Life & Style those problems are only exacerbated by the teenager’s heavy drinking and partying. Texas college student Brian Payne clearly remembers the night he spent hanging with Demi in North Richland Hills, Texas, where he saw her firsthand doing cocaine at a mutual friend’s house party on Dec. 28 last year.

“She was doing line after line like a pro — and she was 17 at the time,” he tells Life & Style, recalling the wild party they attended after a concert by the band Neon Indian at the Granada Theater in Dallas. “I just remember her doing it as if she had been doing it for a long time. It didn’t seem like something new to her.”

Insiders say the pain of her breakup with Joe Jonas — and the fact that they’re on the Camp Rock 2 tour together — further fueled her downward spiral. “Demi’s been on a tear lately,” says an insider. “She’ll chug booze straight from the bottle.”

Luckily for Demi, her mother and stepfather were quick to take action after they heard that she had punched a tour backup dancer in the face.

“They overheard one of the dancers talking about it and freaked out,” says the insider. “They heard Demi was drinking, but the news that her partying was getting out of control shocked them — and they confronted her immediately.”

“This is a young girl who got caught up in the fame and fortune of Hollywood and couldn’t see straight anymore,” says another insider. “She had eating issues and emotional issues, and everything else got hitched along with that.”

[From Life & Style]

I believe it, all of it. Except one part – I think her parents have known for a long time that Demi has had serious issues, and they only stepped in to do something when her alcohol and drug abuse became so bad it threatened their paychecks. I think Demi has had emotional, drug and alcohol problems for years, and the “airport meltdown” incident was only her latest cry for help. Sad.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - SEPTEMBER 29: Demi Lovato arrives at 'The Autumn Party' presented by ARCADE Boutique at The London Hotel on September 29, 2010 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

HOLLYWOOD - SEPTEMBER 23: Actress Demi Lovato arrives at the Padres Contra El Cancer's 25th Annual Gala at The Hollywood Palladium on September 23, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Aug. 18, 2010 - New York, New York, U.S. - DEMI LOVATO and JOE JONAS arriving at the world premiere of the Disney Channel's ''Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam'' at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City on 08-18-2010. 2010..K66143HMc. © Red Carpet Pictures

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