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Demi Lovato has been through a lot these past six months -- and she's ready to tell the world about it with her new single, "Skyscraper." First, however, she paid a visit to Ryan Seacrest's radio show, to open up about her recovery from a serious eating disorder. Watch the video of Lovato and Seacrest's interview, below.
When asked where her troubles began, the 18-year-old former Disney Channel star tells Seacrest that her family has known about her eating issues for six years. Despite that, says Lovato, "I got to a point where I was just lying to everyone that was around me, lying about eating and being happy."
"There's so much pressure -- I feel like I live in a city where no woman eats," says Lovato with a laugh.
After all the lying, she says, admitting she had a problem became the hardest part. "It was the elephant in the room. Everyone knew about it but they didn't know how to approach it," Lovato admits. "And it was affecting every aspect of my life: I was cranky, I was irritable, I was not pleasant to work with... I became like a little brat on set... I was never intentionally trying to be that way, but I had so much going on in my head."
Though she doesn't go into details, Lovato says that she "ended up doing things that I regret to this day." Finally admitting she had a problem, the young singer-actress spent three months (including several major holidays) in a rehabilitation facility. Now she has a healthier self-image, friends who tell her when she's not eating enough -- and two new tattoos. The words "stay" and "strong" cover the self-mutilation scars on Lovato's wrists, a proud reminder of how far she's come.
"It was very symbolic for me to be able to cover that up," she explains, "and also replace it with something else that's permanent that I'll never be able to forget."
With the release of her as-yet-untitled upcoming album, Lovato will fully make the plunge into a music career. Although "Skyscraper" was recorded before her breakdown, she says it has much deeper meaning for her today. "Hopefully what this song does -- if only for my fans -- is it tells them that it's gonna be okay," she says earnestly. "No matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back."
Lovato's video for "Skyscraper" premieres tonight on E!, along with a new video interview with Seacrest -- in which she talks about her cutting addiction, bulimia, and being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Watch the E! interview here.
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It's especially hard nowadays to keep new music under wraps. Just ask Mary J Blige, whose purported collaboration with Nicki Minaj on a song called "Feel Inside" prematurely surfaced online a few weeks ago.
Soon after the leak, Blige's camp revealed that, while the duo are working on a track together for the singer's new album, My Life II ... The Journey Continues (dropping October 4), the song that hit the blogosphere was the result of two different studio sessions and not the real thing.
MTV News recently caught up with Blige to get her take on the leak, and she was none too pleased.
"I was pissed about the leaking of the Nicki Minaj and Mary J Blige record, because that's not fair and people shouldn't do that," she said bluntly. "But I'm over it. We move on. We're going to make more hot music."
Asked what other special guests can be expected on the forthcoming project, MJB remained coy, saying she didn't want to reveal any other featured collaborators until "maybe a month from now" to make sure everything is "etched in stone."
While Blige didn't dish too many details about her and Minaj's collabo, songwriter Andrea Martin (Melanie Fiona, Leona Lewis), the woman who penned the tune, did offer some insight into the Harajuku Barbie-assisted track.
"It was a surprise to know that Nicki Minaj jumped on the song and nobody wanted to tell me. I was like 'What's going on? What's going on?' " Martin told MTV News. "It's just such a great thing. I've always wanted to work with Mary J. Blige, and I finally got the chance to, and it was a good time for me to prove myself that I can write songs for you, baby."
For fans who are still waiting for the finalized collabo to surface, they'll be happy to hear that the song is tentatively scheduled to be one of the project's first singles, with MJB's camp already scouting a video director for the song.
As for whether Martin felt any pressure to deliver material for the sequel to the singer's 1994 breakthrough My Life LP, the songwriter simply said Blige "knows what she wants."
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