Demi Lovato Talked About Her Sexuality And Split With Max Ehrich
Demi Lovato has had a wild last few years. There was her 2018 drug overdose, a long stay in rehab, a new side gig as an alien hunter, and, of course, her blink-and-you’ll-miss-it pandemic engagement/break up with the star of the upcoming film Southern Gospel, Max Ehrich. Although I initially loved Max’s stunt queen messiness, the sheen eventually wore off, and his antics became less “LOL this bitch is on Instagram Live again” and more “Demi, girl, time for a restraining order.” But in a new interview with Glamour, 28-year-old Demi admits that some good actually came out of the split; it forced her to explore her sexuality.
In the interview, Demi discusses her new L.A. home, which she says she almost designed for a straight couple (her and Max):
“I’m not straight, but it was a hetero situation. This could have been a very normal-looking house.”
Instead her “fiercely unique oasis” has something called a “cloud room”, which contains:
A large puffy lamp stretches across the ceiling, flickering with neon light. A plush couch, vibrantly color-blocked, is paired with an electric-purple beanbag-like chair in the corner. The carpet is striped and rainbow.
And it’s not just the striped and rainbow carpet that screams queer. Demi’s new short, dyed hairdo was also a “symbolic shedding of the heteronormative box she was confined in for years”:
“When I started getting older, I started realizing how queer I really am,” Lovato says, beaming. “This past year I was engaged to a man, and when it didn’t work, I was like, This is a huge sign. I thought I was going to spend my life with someone. Now that I wasn’t going to, I felt this sense of relief that I could live my truth.”
Demi says that, at this moment, she feels “too queer” to be with a cis man:
“I hooked up with a girl and was like, ‘I like this a lot more.’ It felt better. It felt right,” she says. “Some of the guys I was hanging out with—when it would come time to be sexual or intimate, I would have this kind of visceral reaction. Like, ‘I just don’t want to put my mouth there.’ It wasn’t even based on the person it was with. I just found myself really appreciating the friendships of those people more than the romance, and I didn’t want the romance from anybody of the opposite sex.”
Her new docuseries, Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil will track her engagement to Max. She says the whole experience really did a number on her:
“Because I denied my intuition of all the red flags that had popped up, I had no one else to blame but myself,” she says. “So I was like, ‘How am I ever going to trust again?’ But really, I was like, ‘Bitch, you should have trusted yourself. If you had trusted yourself, you wouldn’t have ended up in this position.’”
Listen, most of us have dated red flag losers. The trick is to not actually go ahead and marry their dumbasses. And we all have friends who’ve done that. So, all in all, I’d say Demi’s 2020 was a win!
Here are some more pics from Demi’s Glamour shoot:
Pic: Glamour