Demi Lovato opened up about her struggles with mental health issues while talking to the casts of Sonny With a Chance and So Random via video call.
The 27-year-old singer was joined by Thornton, Arm, Doug Brochu, Sterling Knight, Audrey Whitby, Matthew Scott Montgomery, Shayne Topp and Damien Haas for the virtual reunion of the show.
Her former costar Allisyn Ashley Arm asked what everyone has been doing after Sonny With a Chance off-aired in 2011. To which Demi replied, “I went to rehab several times.”
She then revealed Tiffany Thornton, 34, who played the role of Tawni Hart in both Sonny With a Chance and the spinoff, So Random was her inspiration during her tough days.
Demi told Thornton: “When I went away to treatment for the first time, you were my biggest inspiration coming out of it because you dealt with all of those pressures of being a woman on TV.”
“I looked at that as I wish I had that so bad. Yes, I probably was happier in my head with whatever I looked like at the time. But I’m so much happier now with the mentality that you have. I look back now and I’m like, ‘Man, it’s a shame that we wasted any energy on what we wore on set.”
Demi left the show when she was 19 years old as she had started feeling overworked while doing the series. She continued, “I wasn’t sleeping and was so miserable and angry too because I felt like I was being overworked” during the series.
When I left, you don’t expect your show to go on without you, but it did. But I couldn’t have been happier for everybody.”
“I just wasn’t in a period of time when I was ready to be on camera again. I could not go back into that environment and there were other things that factored into it.”
Thornton talked about Camp Rock alum’s dressing room which was “98 degrees every day,” to which Demi reacted saying, “I had an eating disorder and I was underweight and freezing!”
She added: “I would have people over for meetings on my lunch breaks because that’s how much I worked. People would come in and I’d be covered in a blanket and people would say, ‘Why is it 80 degrees in here?’ I would be like, ‘Because I’m freezing.’ They would be like, ‘Oh my god, what’s wrong with you?”
The cast of the show admitted missing each other and Demi revealed she would prefer working on a new project with her former costars because she doesn’t want to go back to the series as she “went through so much” while on set.
She said: “I would rather just start a whole new project with all of you. I had the best time with you guys and when I think about the show, I miss you guys. And I miss spending time with you and joking and going to Kitchen 24 on our lunch breaks! If we were ever to do anything, I think we should just do a whole new thing.”
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