Demi Lovato is celebrating six years of sobriety.
“So grateful for another year of joy, health and happiness,” the 25-year-old singer tweeted Wednesday night, “It IS possible.”
The Sorry Not Sorry singer has been very vocal about her battle with addiction, bipolar disorder, self-harm and bulimia, but it hasn’t always been easy.
She revealed much in her 2017 documentary Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated, like how she entered rehab at the age of 18 after withdrawing from her tour with the Jonas Brothers and punching her backup dancer Alex Welch.
“I wasn’t working my program, I wasn’t ready to get sober,” she said in the documentary, “I was sneaking [cocaine] on planes, I was sneaking it in bathrooms, sneaking it throughout the night … I went on a bender of like, two months where I was using daily.”
It wasn’t until her management team threatened to walk away and her family said she couldn’t be around her younger sister, Madison, that Lovato was actually motivated to change herself.
And she’s since put in the work to maintain a drug- and alcohol-free lifestyle, turning to programs like Alcoholics Anonymous– going so far as ditching the 2016 Met Gala to resist temptation.
Last September, Lovato received the Spirit of Sobriety award at the annual Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Prevention Summer Spectacular in Beverly Hills. In her acceptance speech, she explains that sobriety is a daily challenge.
“Every day is a battle,” she said. “You just have to take it one day at a time, some days are easier than others and some days you forget about drinking and using, but for me, I work on my physical health, which is important, but my mental health as well.”