Demi Lovato opens up on breakdown

Demi Lovato had a nervous breakdown before entering rehab.

The 18-year-old singer-and-actress - who left an unnamed Chicago-based facility in January after being admitted in November - has already revealed she was treated for an eating disorder in the clinic and she has now admitted her parents were so worried about her mental health they staged an intervention to make her confront her problems.

She said: "I basically had a nervous breakdown. I was really bad off. My parents and manager pulled me aside and said, 'You need to get some help.' It was an intervention. I wanted freedom from the inner demons. I wanted to start my life over."

Now the 'Sonny With A Chance' star is looking forward to returning to work and says she has made vast changes to how she lives her life.

She explained in an interview with Seventeen magazine: "I allow myself a lot of freedom and I'm very peaceful now. I have come to realise that just making yourself happy is most important. Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto."