Demi Lovato is ‘healing’ from sexual abuse trauma by talking about it publicly

Demi Lovato lifted the veil off her past battles with drug abuse, sexual assault and coming face-to-face with death in her new docu-series.

Opening up about her horrifying experience with sexual abuse, the singer spoke to People magazine about how talking about it publicly is helping her heal.

"Having put that out in front of the camera and knowing that people have seen that, it's freeing. It's empowering. It's liberating,” she said.

"And it really lets that anger that was inside of me dissolve. I had let go of a lot of the anger beforehand, but this was kind of just the final send-off, like, okay, I can really heal from this now,” she continued.

"Now that I've talked about it and now that I know that other people could hear my story, I just hope that it helps people. Sexual abuse is something that people feel is taboo to talk about and to come forward about, but I want to show people that you can, and it's okay,” she added.