{"id":50731,"date":"2017-09-18T01:03:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T01:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=50731"},"modified":"2017-09-18T01:04:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T01:04:14","slug":"demi-lovato-talks-childhood-bullying-raya-dating-mental-health-awareness-awesome-life-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=50731","title":{"rendered":"Demi Lovato talks childhood bullying, Raya dating, mental health awareness: &#8216;I have an awesome life today&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>As&nbsp;Demi Lovato&nbsp;returns to the scene with<em>&nbsp;Tell Me You Love Me<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 her sixth studio album, and her first full-length release since her 2016 split from her boyfriend of six years, actor Wilmer Valderrama \u2014 it\u2019s understandable how fans might assume that the LP\u2019s sassy lead single, \u201cSorry Not Sorry,\u201d is about her big breakup. But while sitting with Yahoo Music at a private, intimate&nbsp;Spotify showcase&nbsp;for her most diehard L.A. fans, Lovato reveals that lyrics like \u201cPayback is a bad bitch\u201d and \u201cNow I\u2019m out here looking like revenge, feelin\u2019 like a 10\u201d actually take aim at the school bullies who made her life hell when she was just 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>\u201cThat song easily could have been what everyone thinks it is, an ex-boyfriend or something like that \u2014 which it can be, for other people. But for me I was thinking about the bullies that bullied me in school, saying I have an awesome life today and I\u2019m not sorry about it,\u201d Lovato says with a grin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-MsvER1dpjM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>More seriously, Lovato recalls, \u201cThere was actually a suicide petition that got passed around the school saying that they wanted me to kill myself. That was just one of the instances that was one of the reasons why I left public school and I started homeschooling. It was just mean girls \u2014 mean, mean,&nbsp;<em>mean<\/em>&nbsp;girls. They would say things to me online. They would post anonymously on my social media, and I knew exactly who they were because I checked their IP address. They would say the meanest things. It was all verbal harassment; nobody physically abused me \u2014 but I feel like the scars are still there. It was really awesome for me to be able to write \u2018Sorry Not Sorry\u2019 and get that out in that song and say, \u2018You know what? I\u2019m living a really great life today, and I\u2019m not feeling bad about it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Lovato dug deep on the album\u2019s title track too, which she recorded around the time of both the Valder<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>rama breakup and the death of her beloved grandmother. \u201cI remember just being in the studio almost crying singing it,\u201d Lovato recalls. \u201cI dealt with a lot of deaths in the family earlier that year; [my grandmother] was the one that I was the closest to. I also was going through a breakup. With that song, I remember feeling like I just wanted to hear someone tell me that they love me. And we\u2019ve all been there. We\u2019ve all felt like we just want someone to say, \u2018I love you.\u2019 Feelings of \u2026 just emotions that you feel when you\u2019re lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hgo8rsROG8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>However, for the most part,&nbsp;<em>Tell Me You Love Me<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 which Lovato says was inspired by&nbsp;<em>Stripped<\/em>-era Christina Aguilera and is \u201cmore mature, more soulful than any other album that I\u2019ve put out, more authentic to who I am\u201d \u2014 is an upbeat affair. (\u201cIt\u2019s not a breakup album,\u201d she clarifies.) She just celebrated her milestone 25th birthday in August, and is clearly enjoying the 20-something single life: She\u2019s even on the elite, members-only dating app&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/style\/inside-the-secret-dating-app-for-famous-people-126696064508.html\">Raya<\/a>&nbsp;now. \u201cIt\u2019s so cool. I love that app!\u201d she says, giggling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>\u201cI wrote [on this album] about being a single 25-year-old woman. There\u2019s a lot of emotions that I deal with \u2014 I get lonely; we all get lonely sometimes \u2014 but I feel empowered as a woman living on her own,\u201d Lovato asserts. \u201cI feel confident. And the dating game is fun, so there\u2019s lots of songs about that too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Lovato finds dating \u201cexciting,\u201d saying, \u201cYou get to go on dates with people and go to dinner and see if you click with them \u2014 and if you don\u2019t, then you don\u2019t have to see them again!\u201d Given her past outspokenness about her&nbsp;mental health struggles&nbsp;\u2014 a difficult relationship with her abusive late father, bipolar disorder, depression, bulimia, self-harm, addiction to drugs and alcohol \u2014 many of her prospective Raya suitors know about her troubled history, but she doesn\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>\u201cIt\u2019s not hard to for me date,\u201d the six-years-sober Lovato says. \u201cI feel like a lot of people still don\u2019t know my story, so if they want to know, they can ask me about it. Sometimes if they do know, and then I don\u2019t have to talk about it, which is nice. I\u2019m an open book, and if they already know my story and they still want to date me, that\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>While many mainstream pop artists, like Katy Perry, Sia, Lady Gaga, Kesha, Imagine Dragons\u2019&nbsp;Dan Reynolds, Kid Cudi, and Mary Lambert, have been&nbsp;outspoken&nbsp;about their own mental health battles, Lovato was one of the first music stars to speak out on the topic \u2014 something she acknowledges and is proud of. \u201cBut I\u2019m really happy that I\u2019m not one of the last,\u201d she adds. \u201cI\u2019m happy that this message will continue to spread and raise the awareness of mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>As for why a stigma against mental illness still exists today, she theorizes, \u201cIt\u2019s harder to see mental illness. The symptoms aren\u2019t as tangible as, let\u2019s say, a bleeding cut \u2014 but you\u2019re bleeding&nbsp;<\/span><em style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>inside<\/em><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>. That\u2019s what people don\u2019t see, so it\u2019s hard for some people to understand. I think when you look at it from a place of understanding the fact that you can\u2019t see it and that someone\u2019s struggle is very important, I think you\u2019re able to understand a little bit better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>\u201cI think it\u2019s starting to change,\u201d she says. \u201cI want to continue to spread the awareness so that people will take away the stigma when talking about mental health. I get messages all the time, on Instagram and Twitter and fan letters, that say that I\u2019ve helped them. They\u2019ve struggled with mental illness as well, and they\u2019ve been able to get the treatment they\u2019ve needed because of me or I\u2019ve inspired them to get help. It\u2019s been very impactful. Sometimes people say that I\u2019ve saved their lives, and that\u2019s almost unfathomable. You can\u2019t comprehend something as meaningful as that, but it means so much to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Clearly few topics are off-limits for Lovato, so she also boldly continues to explore her sexuality on&nbsp;<em>Tell Me You Love Me<\/em>. However, unlike some former child stars who feel the need to release a \u201csexy\u201d statement album to prove they\u2019re all grown up now, Lovato says she never experienced or internalized that pressure. \u201cI just was at a different place in my life than what other people were in [when I was younger],\u201d she explains. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel the need to take off my clothes, necessarily, although I have \u2014 I\u2019ve definitely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2015\/10\/demi-lovato-spontaneous-nude-makeup-free-photo-shoot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">posed nude for&nbsp;<em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>, and I wear skimpy clothes onstage. I\u2019m 25 now, and it\u2019s my body. I do what I want with it. When I was younger, I wanted my voice to speak for itself, and I feel like it did and it\u2019s continuing to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Indeed it is. It may have taken a while, but the general public has finally gotten hip to the fact that \u2014 unlike some of Lovato\u2019s Auto-Tune-dependent pop-princess peers \u2014 this lady can really&nbsp;<em>sing<\/em>. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m finally getting that recognition,\u201d Lovato admits. \u201cI think it started with the Grammys two years ago. Some of the songs I\u2019ve released [since then] have been more soulful, so you get to hear my voice better. I think that my music reflects that. Before, I was making more pop songs that didn\u2019t showcase my vocals as much. Now I\u2019m able to make the music that I feel like is going to showcase my voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>And as for those junior-high bullies who are now witnessing, from afar, Lovato living her absolute best life? The singer says with a shrug, \u201cI don\u2019t hold grudges. Life\u2019s too short. You never know where you\u2019re going to be tomorrow or where that person\u2019s going to be tomorrow. So never hold a grudge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><em>Tell Me You Love Me<\/em>&nbsp;is out Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<div style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As&nbsp;Demi Lovato&nbsp;returns to the scene with&nbsp;Tell Me You Love Me&nbsp;\u2014 her sixth studio album, and her first full-length release since her 2016 split from her boyfriend of six years, actor Wilmer Valderrama \u2014 it\u2019s understandable how fans might assume that the LP\u2019s sassy lead single, \u201cSorry Not Sorry,\u201d is about her big breakup. 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