Demi Lovato claims past problems lead to nervous breakdown  

Yesterday we told you about Demi Lovato and her return from rehab. Well, there’s more to come. In an interview in next month’s ‘Seventeen’ she reveals part of what put her there;

In October the 18-year old former actress was nearly arrested for punching a backup dancer on the Jonas Brothers tour. Today she admits she regrets that.

“Lashing out was my cry for help,” she now claims. “Who was I to do that? I’m very ashamed. I wasn’t in the right state of mind at all.”

Demi now says the whole thing happened because she ‘basically had a nervous breakdown.’

“I was really bad,” she admits. “My parents and my manager said, ‘You need to get help.’ It was an intervention.”

And the situation was made worse, so she says, by keeping her problems a secret.

“I don’t know if I actually wanted help because my eating disorders were my best friend,” she recalled. “Looking back on it, I just want to cradle my old self and tell her it doesn’t have to be this way.”

But rehab apparently helped;

“One of the reasons I was so unhappy was because I never embraced my emotions,” she expounds. “In treatment, all the negative things I did were stripped away.”

Part of the therapy involved classes in painting and knitting, but she also took the chance to reconnect with Selena Gomez. They talked every week.

“We didn’t really discuss what I was going through, we just talked,” Lovato recalls.

With rehab behind her – for now – her next plan is to help fans who might have the same problems. She’s joined ‘Seventeen’ as a writer and will now help teens find some answers;

“I’m excited to be working with Seventeen to help other teens cope with the problems we face,” she gushes at the News. “My fans have been an incredible support system. I hope I can repay this and help others learn from my experiences.”