
Demi Lovato bottled up her feelings while being bullied until she begged her mum to take her out of school, she has revealed.
The Camp Rock actress talked about her experiences in the hope of helping younger Disney fans who might be going through similar problems.
“Bullying is something I went through when I was 12 years old, I actually ended up leaving school because of it,” she explained in Los Angeles.
“I just remember the hard times that I went through that caused problems that I struggle with every day to this day,” the 18-year-old confessed. “I was bottling it up 100% and one day I was in a bathroom and the lights were out, I couldn’t turn them on because you had to have a key in a separate part of the school, and I just called my mum and I was crying and I said ‘I don’t want to go to school any more’ and instead of pulling me out 100% she started home schooling me.”
She added: “It was a rough time, I was by myself.”
After working with her mum to find a solution, the Sonny With A Chance actress then ended up making friends with a young actress who went on to become the star of Wizards Of Waverly Place
“I actually home schooled with Selena Gomez so she was a good friend to me then and she still is,” she explained.
“If I can be an inspiration to say ‘hey you can get through it’, that’s all I want to be.”
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