Demi Lovato returned to the Met Gala after a ‘terrible’ experience at the event 8 years ago

Demi Lovato returned to the Met Gala after a ‘terrible’ experience at the event 8 years ago

Demi Lovato returned to the Met Gala on Monday, eight years after a bad experience at the event raised questions about whether she would ever attend again.

After the gala in 2016, Lovato posted on Instagram a since-deleted photo of herself standing on the red carpet next to Nicki Minaj, who looked displeased. Lovato wrote that the image “pretty much sums up my first and probably last Encounter.”

“I had a horrible experience,” he told Billboard in a 2018 interview. “It was very cliquey.”

Lovato said that she remembers being “so uncomfortable that I wanted to drink,” and that she ended up leaving early — while still wearing “millions of dollars in diamonds” — to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

“I connected more with the homeless people at the meeting who were struggling with the same struggles I was than the people at the Met Gala,” she said.

Lovato publicly documents her history with substance abuse and her recovery.

In July 2018, Lovato was hospitalized following a near-fatal overdose just a month after revealing that she had relapsed when she released a song called “Sober.” She later shared in her 2021 YouTube documentary “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil” that while hospitalized, she suffered several strokes and a heart attack.

The singer has turned over a new leaf, telling Andy Cohen on his Sirius XM radio show last year that he’s practicing sobriety and is in a “more positive frame of mind.”

“I won’t change my course because I don’t have any regrets,” he said.