In a recent interview, Demi Lovato revealed new details about the behind-the-scenes experience she experienced while she was an artist for the Disney label.
Singer, songwriter and actress, Demetria Devonne Lovatobetter known by her stage name Demi Lovatobegan her career as a star in childhood, when she played Angela in the children’s television show, “Barney and Friends”, at age 6.
She was also in the cast of the series “When the Bell Rings” in 2007, before, at the age of 15, defining her place on the Disney Channel and in the music industry after a national talent search for “Next Big Thing” (2008), which allowed her, from then on, to give life to the role that would launch her career to stardom: Mitchie Torres, protagonist of “Camp Rock”.
It was after giving life to a teenager who desperately wants to spend the summer at a rock camp that Lovato was able to perform shows around the world, release albums such as “Don’t Forget” and “Here we Go Again”, and star in other major titles of the House such as the series “Sunny among Stars” and the film “Princess Protection Program”, where she acted alongside Selena Gomez.
Even though being a Disney artist was in everyone’s dreams, Lovatobeing in front of the spotlight was not as the artist imagined, as she revealed in an exclusive interview about “Child Star”, a documentary directed by herself that will bring stories from former child stars, given to The Hollywood Reporter, where the artist recalled some of the topics that caused her pressure when being in the entertainment industry from a young age.
I was filled with gratitude, and there was this sense of wonder and excitement,” she recalls. “It was very much the honeymoon phase of my career, right before the train started moving in a way where I couldn’t pump the brakes.”
In the chat published this Wednesday, 14th, Lovato recalled a dialogue he had in “Child Star” with his former “Camp Rock” colleague, Alyson Stonerwho gave life to Caitlyn, where the two commented on aesthetic pressure who suffered behind the scenes, as they saw their bodies undergoing retouching in editing software so that they could star on magazine covers.
More than that, he also revealed that he was envious of Nickelodeon stars, where the image that artists needed to convey was freer, unlike Disney, where they needed to be examples.
At Disney, you became this instant role model, whether you liked it or not,” she explains. “And because the Disney Channel was so big at the time, there was also this unspoken pressure that if you made a mistake, you knew there were millions of people just waiting to take your place.”
At another time, Lovato also commented on the statement of Stoner in the documentary, where she said that at the time of “Camp Rock 2” (2010), living with the interpreter of Mitchie Torres was like ‘walking on eggshells’ due to the problems the artist faced with the use of illicit substances and struggles with body image.
About that,Lovato admitted to feeling guilty about the treatment he gave to the people who lived around him at the time, despite not clearly remembering the events of “Camp Rock 2” due to the trauma he suffered.
I think I was past the point of what I could handle emotionally and physically. And I didn’t realize that child stardom could be traumatic — and it’s not traumatic for everyone, but for me, it was. I think about the people in the wardrobe department on my TV show, because I would go in there in a bad mood all the time, and I would worry about the guest stars who would come on or the other actors or the people during ‘Camp Rock 2.’ And it’s easy to excuse that behavior because I was so young and I was in a lot of pain, but I feel so much remorse, and that’s a guilt that stays with you forever.”
Due to the experiences of Lovato in front of the cameras for the past nearly two decades, she was asked what she would tell her children if they wanted to pursue a career in Hollywood. To which she responded by stating that wants his heirs to have “the childhood I didn’t have”.
“I would say, ‘Let’s study music theory and get you ready for the day you turn 18, because it’s not going to happen before then,'” he said. “‘Not because I don’t believe in you, or I don’t love you, or I don’t want you to be happy, but because I want you to have a childhood, the childhood that I didn’t have.'”
At the end of the chat, the interviewer asks Lovato if she came to a conclusion about what she was looking for when she decided to audition for the “Next Big Thing”, which she revealed that he was looking for the love he didn’t receive from his father biological, Patrick Lovatowho died of cancer in 2013, but who since childhood Demino longer participated in the singer and actress’s life.
“I think part of me always thought that if I could make it in the industry, I would get the love from my biological father that I didn’t have. And he was worried, and I think I always chased success because I knew it would put me in his line of sight again and make him proud of me,” Lovato says, her eyes welling up with tears. “But now that I’ve dealt with my father issues, I don’t need the industry as much as I used to, and I’m proud of myself for making it.”
It is worth remembering that more details about the past of Lovato at Disney are set to be revealed in “Child Star,” in addition to statements from former child stars like Drew Barrymore, Christina Ricci, JoJo Siwa and Kenan Thompson. The documentary premieres September 17 on Hulu.
Source: Recreio
