Demi Lovato has been vocal about her struggles with mental health, body-image issues, and substance abuse, and now she’s opening up even more about the powerful reason she decided to get clean over five years ago. The defining moment: her parent’s ban on seeing her sister, Madison De La Garza, until she got sober.

According to Daily Mail, Lovato spoke about her struggles with addiction and her success with treatment during an interview on the U.K.’s Jonathan Ross Show this week. “I went through some tough times and went to treatment for some struggles that I had and now I’ve come out the other side, and I use my stories to help others and inspire them to get the help they need.”

Demi added: “There were a few [interventions by family and friends] but the final one, everyone was like, ‘We are no longer going to leave, we are leaving.’ That was the moment when I thought, ‘OK I really need to get help and get sober.'”

The fact that her mother and stepfather wouldn’t let her see her sister, though, was what truly motivated her to change her lifestyle.

“This time I knew… I had hit rock bottom and I just needed to do this for myself. I knew that I had a lot of life ahead of me but one of the main reasons of getting sober was so that I could be around my little sister because my [mom] and dad [said I couldn’t be around her] if I was doing stuff. So I got the help I needed and now I co-own a treatment center,” she said.

Lovato celebrated her fifth year anniversary of being sober back in March and has spoken about mental health at the DNC and opened up about her self-esteem issues and how she deals with them.

The 25-year-old was recognized this week for her work in promoting conversations around mental health by being named the mental health ambassador for Global Citizen, a social media initiative for social change.

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