Demi Lovato feels ‘free’ after talking about her experience with sexual abuse

Demi Lovato's new docu-series brings to light a number of her past battles with drug abuse and her experience of being sexually assaulted. 

Shedding light on her horrifying experience with sexual abuse, the singer spoke to People magazine about how talking about it publicly is helping her heal.

"Having put that out in front of the camera and knowing that people have seen that, it's freeing. It's empowering. It's liberating,” she said.

"And it really lets that anger that was inside of me dissolve. I had let go of a lot of the anger beforehand, but this was kind of just the final send-off, like, okay, I can really heal from this now,” she continued.

"Now that I've talked about it and now that I know that other people could hear my story, I just hope that it helps people. Sexual abuse is something that people feel is taboo to talk about and to come forward about, but I want to show people that you can, and it's okay,” she added.