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Are you discussing Demi Lovato with your children?
An article in Life & Style magazine finds Texas college student Brian Payne claiming that he saw then 17-year-old “Sonny with a Chance” star Demi Lovato doing lines of cocaine “like a pro” nearly a year ago at a party in North Richland Hills, Texas.
“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,” Payne says in the story.
The Disney tween icon, star of the “Camp Rock” movies, left a nationwide tour with the Jonas Brothers and checked into rehab, her handlers reported on November 1. Lovato’s representatives say she “left her tour to seek medical treatment for emotional and physical issues she has dealt with for some time.” The Life & Style article quotes unnamed “insiders” who say the singer and actress was in pain over her break-up with Joe Jonas and “chug(ged) booze straight from the bottle.”
Lovato has reportedly cut herself in the past and told the Associated Press that she left middle school because she was bullied so badly.
Do you have kids who are fans of Lovato’s? Are you shielding them from the news or using it as a teaching moment? How are you approaching the issue? Sound off in the comments.
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