Demi went on to discuss her eating disorder too, opening up in her AH interview about how her food-related-troubles began before she was even a teenager. Describing her weight problems as something that "was always there," Demi recalled how she "started overeating, compulsively overeating" at just "8 or 9 years old," with this overeating turning into under-eating and even developed into bulimia. She said, "I went from doing that [overeating] to being unhappy with my body. I went to just completely starving myself and that turned into throwing up and starving myself and it was just this crazy battle going on inside of me. It got really difficult [and] I would throw up and it would just be blood and it was something that I realized if I don’t stop this, I am going to die.”

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Demi has managed to get her life in order at last

Demi's mother, Dianna, was also present at the interview and recalled how she dealt with her daughter's hidden drug problem and her own struggles with an eating disorder, struggles that landed both mother and daughter in rehab, where their relationship only flourished from there on.

In regards to Demi's drug use, she recalled, “I suspected [she was using drugs]. It’s like any other parent, when you see things, when you see signs you don’t want to believe that’s what actually going on. So when they’re telling you that’s not what is going on… you want too badly to believe them and I think for a long time I was in denial. I didn’t know. I didn’t actually see her, so when she said, ‘Oh no, There’s nothing going on. I’m not using, I’m not drinking, I wasn’t doing any of these things,’ Why was I not to believe her?”

Going on to describe her own weight issues, Dianne thanked her daughter's own rehab stint in 2010 for making her realise that she had problems of her own, problems that she needed to resolve before it was too late. Thanks to help from her daughter, they were both able to get the help they needed. Dianna continued, “I had issues I needed to work on as well because I wasn’t setting a good example for her. I had a terrible eating disorder that I had for many, many years and I didn’t realize it and I had to face up to the fact that I was suffering as well. And a lot of what [Demi] went through with an eating disorder had to do with what she had seen growing up and I also had severe depression and I ended up asking for help actually they did an intervention with me and said, ‘Mom, you need to get help.’”

With those difficulties resolved and their demons seemingly in the past, Demi and Dianna have only grown closer as a result and with each other to rely on, both hope they will never fall back into an eating, drinking or drug-related nightmare.We hope so too!

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