Hello and welcome to Iway with Jermila Jamil. Thank you so much for all of your messages.

I really appreciate how warm and thoughtful and insightful you have all been. I'm thrilled

to know that you're enjoying the podcast and thank you for opening up to me about your

own incredibly moving and inspiring stories. I so appreciate that and would love you to

keep that going because I'm reading like everything. The point where I shouldn't even

really admit that makes me sound like a massive big friend but I am because I want this to be

the best podcast possible for all of us and I want to know what you like less of and I want to know

who you would like to hear me interview and what you would like for us to get into on this podcast

and why. I'm so so interested and so appreciative of your feedback. I'm really excited about today's

guest. She is someone that I've looked up to for a really long time. She's one of the first super

famous people women in particular to open up about all of the most taboo subjects like mental health

addiction rehab overdoses therapy eating disorders the way we mistreat child stars. I'm talking

about Demi Lovato, a woman who is not a saint, has never professed to be one. She's just a human

who has become unfathomably successful. I mean famous in a way that most of us could never even

imagine and she sacrificed her privacy and allowed in so much scrutiny and accusations of

hypocrisy and smearing and lies from the media and from society just to be able to make sure that

if she is open then she will hopefully let her fans feel like they too can be open and feel seen

in her and whatever struggle they're going through because she's going through it too. You don't

see a lot of people do this because of how hard society is on them when they do. In fact just this

week there is a bloody hashtag going around it's trending saying hashtag Demi Lovato is overparty.

Now look I understand that it is important to call out to behaviour that you don't like. I

understand the importance of cancel culture especially when someone is really malicious and

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