Demi Lovato Performs 'Dancing with the Devil' on The Tonight Show & Talks Ariana Grande Collab

Demi Lovato virtually appeared on The Tonight Show to talk about her new YouTube docu-series and to perform her latest single, Dancing with the Devil.

If you have yet to watch Demi’s docu-series, she opens up about her difficult past, including her 2018 overdose, “It was challenging, because everything that I went through in that storytelling journey of making a documentary was difficult, and I had to work through a lot of those things before I actually told the story on camera,” Demi tells Jimmy Fallon.

 

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Demi revealed that although she found the experience to be “really cathartic, really, really therapeutic,” she had an anxiety attack while watching the series for the first time, “But it’s been good. And part of, you know, telling my story is taking ownership. And just owning my truth.  No matter what people say when they watch it, and whatever people think when they listen to my album [Dancing With the Devil…The Art of Starting Over], I am so excited about these two projects and I’m standing in such truth that nothing anyone can say will shake me.”

Demi also opened up about her ‘Met Him Last Night’ collaboration with Ariana Grande, “For years we’ve talked about wanting to do a song together.”  When Demi first heard the track, originally only having Ariana’s vocals on it, Demi says, ” I thought her voice sounded so incredible that she encouraged me to just stay on it and we can finally do that song we always wanted to do together.”

Watch Demi and Jimmy as they play ‘One Word Songs’ on The Tonight Show.

https://youtu.be/M7qqMCNyU2w

Demi will also appear in an upcoming singer-camera comedy series, which has just been given a pilot order from NBC.  Demi will serve as the shows executive producer and lead character, and according to its description, “‘Hungry’ follows friends who belong to a food issues group and help each other as they look for love, success and the perfect thing in the fridge that’s going to make it all better.”

 

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Throughout the years, Demi has been open about her past eating disorders, telling ABC News in 2011, “I was compulsively overeating when I was 8 years old, so I guess, for the past 10 years I’ve had a really unhealthy relationship with food.”  Demi was also bullied about her weight by her classmates during her Camp Rock days, “I was performing concerts on an empty stomach.  I was losing my voice from purging.”

And check out Demi’s NPR Tiny Desk at home Concert Series performance below.