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Demi Lovato Calls Out Tabloid Reports on Her Recovery: "It's No One's Business But Mine"

Demi Lovato has just shared an update on her recovery from what was reportedly a drug overdose in July—and clapped back at tabloids speculating about her health.

On Twitter Friday night (December 21), Lovato posted a series of tweets in which she defended her ongoing journey to sobriety. “I love my fans and I hate the tabloids,” she wrote. “Don’t believe what you read. People will literally make stuff up to sell a story.”

Lovato did not share where the rumors about her health came from, but she refuted them with a powerful statement: “I am sober and grateful to be alive and taking care of ME.”

She also added that when she wants to share her recovery journey in full, it will happen on her own terms: “Someday I’ll tell the world what exactly happened, why it happened and what my life is like today.. but until I’m ready to share that with people please stop prying and making up shit that you know nothing about. I still need space and time to heal.”

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“Any ‘source’ out there that is willing to talk and sell stories to blogs and tabloids about my life isn’t actually a part of my life because most of the shit I see is soooooo inaccurate,” she said. “So newsflash: your ‘sources’ are wrong.”

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She ended her message by reassuring fans that she is in a healthy place. “All my fans need to know is I’m working hard on myself, I’m happy and clean and I’m SO grateful for their support.”

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“I’m so blessed I get to take this time to be with family, relax, work on my mind, body and soul and come back when I’m ready. I have my fans to thank for that. I’m so grateful, truly. I love you guys so fucking much ? thank you ??,” she continued.

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Lovato has already opened up about her recovery after being hospitalized following the reported overdose in July. She shared her first update in a letter on her Instagram in September, which has since been deleted. “I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction,” she said. “What I’ve learned is that this illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome and have not done yet.”

All reports from Lovato’s family since then suggest that the singer is getting healthy. In September, her mother, Dianna de la Garza, said in an interview that Lovato is “getting the help she needs” to recover. Later, her younger sister, Madison de la Garza, shared an update on her health in an October interview. “She’s working really hard on her sobriety, and we’re all so incredibly proud of her,” she said.

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No One's Ever Heard of Tussy Deodorant, But I Assure You It's the Best

Legend has it that my great grandmother was the first woman in our family to discover our signature anti-perspirant: Tussy. Though the origin story is unknown, her daughter (my grandmother), still associates its scent with her mom—even now, over nine years since she passed away.

My grandmother also distinctly remembers the very first time her mom introduced her to the brand. It was in her early teens, when she first started needing to use deodorant. “Tussy was the first kind I ever used, and I’ve been using it all of my life,” my grandmother, Joanie, now 77 and still an avid user, recently told me.

The rest is, as they say, history. My grandmother passed it on to my mother, and then when puberty hit my household, a bottle of Tussy was bestowed upon my younger sister and I—making us the fourth-gen users. And like any strange family quirk (not every family grew up using ketchup on their tacos?) I assumed using Tussy was totally the norm.

But when I got to the age where you needed a refresh post-P.E., I’d look around at the other girls in the locker room lifting up their arms to reapply, and would see Secret, Dove, or Degree—but Tussy was nowhere to be found. “What the eff is that?” I remember countless friends asking me as they gawked at Tussy’s retro red branding. And while I fell prey to many instances of adolescent bullying—like the time I threw away a pink and green shirt because it made me look like a ‘watermelon’, or when I got teased for being the last in my class to wear a training bra (despite the fact that I desperately needed one)—I always held strong to Tussy: because I knew it was the sh*t.

So why do I love this roll-on deodorant of yesteryear, that you can’t even find in most pharmacies (I bulk order it on Amazon)? As described on its label, it’s the “original fresh spice.” But it doesn’t have that overtly spicy, Christmasy scent of the more popular Old Spice. Or as my twenty-year-old sister, Ari, explains, “it also has this amazing powdery undertone to it. Like baby powder.” This one-two punch serves as a neutralizer for any odor you might have, but still offers a slight kick at the end, like the kind you find when you finish your last few gritty sips of a chai latte.

What keeps my mother, Melissa, 51, coming back is that, “while I’ve tried a lot of other [perfumed] brands, this is the only deodorant where I’ve never smelled bad. With other kinds I get sweaty, or paranoid I have B.O., but with Tussy, I just smell like me.” Personally, I think Tussy smells more like me, than it does her, but that’s another matter.

And though I sometimes feel the pressure to switch it up after articles come out warning me about toxins and urging me to switch to natural deodorant, I keep going back. Something about the way its quick-drying liquid rolls right on, minimizing any odor, and leaving me with the subtlest spiced fragrance. Or maybe it’s just that my family just has me completely brainwashed, but regardless, Tussy, I just can’t quit you.

Tussy Anti-Perspirant Deodorant Roll-On, $10.96 for 3, amazon.com

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