The life of Demi Lovato

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They just came out as nonbinary. But they've always been vocal about living their truth.   This is the life of actor, singer, mental health advocate Demi Lovato.

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00:00I'm just a firm believer in being yourself and accepting yourself for who you are and loving yourself.

00:06The person I think that's most impacting me today is my mom.

00:33We've gotten really close over the past couple months and her strength just continues to

00:38inspire me every single day.

00:48He was abusive.

00:52He was mean, but he wanted to be a good person.

01:12We found lots of fun things with one, two, three, four sides.

01:31Millions of people comment about your body, about the way you look, your skin, your talent,

01:37who you're dating, who you're friends with, who you're feuding with and you're just like,

01:41should I be a teenager?

01:42Like, nope.

01:43In the process of getting to where we are, that's when you really have to know who you

01:57are and you have to have thick skin and really, you know, just a strong family to back you

02:02up and, you know, we're who we are because of what we've been through.

02:22There was an incident that happened in South America and that was kind of my rock bottom

02:27and I basically, when that happened, my family was like, you need to go get help and I didn't

02:33want to, but at the same time, I knew it was best for me, so I went and that's when I went

02:38and that's when people were like, you know, you need to get help, but before then, I don't

02:42think people realize the severity of the problems and the issues that I had.

02:58He wasn't able to function very well in society and so that happens to a lot of people.

03:12When I started to raise awareness around mental health, my goal was to simplify the

03:19conversation and to break down the barriers that are placed around it.

03:35The more that you're vocal for yourself and also others, the more that people can help

03:40you.

03:51All of my guy friends when I was younger were gay and it was just something that was natural

03:54and so when I, and it wasn't really accepted in the South, in Texas, and I watched how

04:03people would treat them.

04:22I feel like you can use things to cope in life and music has been a huge coping mechanism

04:29for me.

04:30It's been very therapeutic for me, but there's only so much that music can do before you

04:33have to take responsibility and you have to take the initiative to get the help that

04:37you need.

04:50I had three strokes.

04:52I had a heart attack.

04:54My doctors said that I had five to ten more minutes.

05:05I feel that this vest represents the fluidity I feel in my gender expression and allows

05:10me to feel most authentic and true to the person I both know I am and still am discovering.

05:19All of this is great and it's beautiful and I'm lucky and I'm blessed and I'm grateful,

05:25but I've learned that clearly if all of this made you happy, I wouldn't have ended up where

05:32I did.

05:34My success does not measure my happiness.

05:39When I think about what makes me happy today, I think about my family.

05:43I think about my friends.

05:44I think about my team.

05:46I think about people, connections, soul connections, meaningful relationships, exactly.

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