Those closest to Demi Lovato reportedly attempted an intervention weeks before she suffered a drug overdose on Tuesday.
Sources close to the singer told TMZ that her team rallied for her to get help weeks before she overdosed on drugs that possibly included meth, but that the singer refused treatment.
Lovato, 25, is reported to be going to rehab once discharged from the hospital, but pals are reportedly concerned that she will refuse to get help.
“The thing about an addict is that you become so good at hiding it. She’s a really smart girl. When she had work commitments, she could pull it together. But that’s how she’s always been, and this might not be her rock bottom,” a source told People. “Demi has to want to get help. She can’t be forced into rehab or treatment.”
“A lot of people knew she was drinking again, but not that she was using drugs again … When she’s slipped up or been close to slipping up in the past, the biggest concern was alcohol,” the source added.
Lovato celebrated six years of sobriety in March before revealing in June that she’d relapsed.
However, some sources claimed to People that the “Sober” singer wasn’t actually sober for the entire six years. One insider said Lovato had been fighting depression and anxiety leading up to her overdose and had been partying with friends who didn’t have her best interests at heart while pushing away those who actually held her accountable.
Lovato’s longtime friend and guitarist Mike Manning fumed in an Instagram story after her hospitalization, “I almost lost my sister today. Anybody who was with Demi last night and actually calls themselves a friend should actually be disgusted with themselves. SICK … You can never trust anyone. Never can know if your “friends” are truly on your side or not.”
Currently missing from Lovato’s life are her CAST Centers partner and sobriety coach Mike Bayer and longtime manager Phil McIntyre, who staged an intervention for Lovato in 2012.
In the months leading up to Lovato’s relapse, the singer unfollowed Bayer, then tweeted to a fan that the biggest lesson she learned this year is, “You can’t always trust people who you once thought saved you.”
Lovato also severed professional ties with McIntyre’s PhillyMack management and signed with Roc Nation shortly before her relapse was revealed.
A rep for Lovato did not immediately return a request for comment.