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March 11, 2021 – “I called [my recovery case manager, Charles Cook] and was like, ‘Something’s not right. I’m living one side of my life completely legalizing and this other side following a program that’s telling me if I slip up, I’m going to die,” she told Glamour for the magazine’s March 2021 cover story. “I think I want to try this balance thing in the substance side of my life, too.”
The unique approach worried her team, Lovato admitted, although they ultimately decided that “She deserves this opportunity to make that choice for herself,” she recalled. “So I did.” Still, she clarified that her outlook on sobriety isn’t one that she’s preaching for others. Instead, she explained that her journey should encourage others to view their own as an individual one.
“A one-size-fits-all solution does not work for everybody,” she said. “What I’m encouraging people to do is just make choices for themselves… Autonomy, for me, is what changed my life.”
Making decisions for herself is not something that Lovato has been able to do in the past, after a rise to fame at a young age. Admittedly, the pressure that she felt to conform from both her fans and her closest teammates is what drove her to be inauthentic and ultimately unhappy.
