Demi Lovato has been open about their journey through addiction and to sobriety over the last several years, releasing music that explicitly deals with the topic and inviting fans into their world in their documentary TV series,In 2018, the singer had a near-fatal overdose from heroin laced with fentanyl, and in a CBS interview in March 2021, Lovato declared themself “California sober,” a term with dubious meaning that refers to the practice of consuming marijuana, and in some cases moderate...
"I think the term that I best identify with is California sober," they said at the time. "I really don't feel comfortable explaining the parameters of my recovery to people, because I don't want anyone to look at my parameters of safety and think that's what works for them, because it might not." "I've learned that it doesn't work for me to say that I'm never going to do this again," Lovato added. "... I know I'm done with the stuff that's going to kill me, right? Telling myself that I can never have a drink or smoke marijuana, I feel like that's setting myself up for failure because I am such a black-and-white thinker. I had it drilled into my head for so many years that one drink was equivalent to a crack pipe.