Camp Rock co-stars Demi Lovato and Alyson Stoner have revealed how they ended their feud for their upcoming documentary Child Star.
Demi, 31, landed her breakthrough role on Barney & Friends at the age of eight and soon after became a Disney Channel personality.
As she became an adult celebrity, she battled a number of personal demons, including bulimia, drug abuse and bipolar disorder.
She’s now making her directorial debut with Child Star, interviewing names like Drew Barrymore, JoJo Siwa, Christina Ricci and more about growing up famous.
He even arranged for an on-camera chat with Alyson, but the couple first had to work through a long-standing rift, they said. The Hollywood Reporter.
Demi Lovato (right) and Alyson Stoner (left) have revealed how they ended their feud, which dates back to their 2010 Disney Channel movie Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.
They told the story in Demi’s new cover interview for The Hollywood Reporter, which she gave to promote her upcoming documentary Child Star.
The interview was accompanied by a sensual photo shoot starring Demi, who showed off her cleavage on the cover of the magazine.
Putting on her best femme fatale look, Demi (who uses both “she” and “they”) modeled a series of glamorous, skin-baring outfits.
One of her most striking looks was a pinstripe pantsuit that she wore without a top, revealing her black bra for the camera.
In the interview, she and Alyson recalled the obstacles they encountered in their relationship and how they eventually reconciled.
Demi was 15 and Alyson was 14 when Camp Rock first aired on Disney Channel in 2008, starring the two alongside the Jonas Brothers.
Two years later, they reunited for Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, but on that project, Alyson had a tense experience working with Demi.
Demi was struggling with drugs and her body image, and the result was prickly behavior that made Alyson walk “on eggshells” around her.
“There was definitely a lot of fear that there would be an explosion,” Alyson said during her on-camera interview for the documentary.
The interview was accompanied by a sensual photo shoot starring Demi, who showed off her cleavage on the cover of the magazine.
Sporting her best smoldering femme fatale look, Demi, who uses both “she” and “they” pronouns, modeled a series of glamorous, skin-baring outfits.
One of her most striking looks was a pinstripe pantsuit that she wore without a top, revealing her black bra for the camera.
Demi’s latest comments about her film come after JoJo Siwa, Drew Barrymore, Kenan Thompson and Raven-Symoné were revealed as guests for the Child Star interview.
Demi, who came out as nonbinary and stated a preference for the pronouns “she” and “they,” announced the documentary Child Star last year.
When they went on tour to promote Camp Rock 2, things didn’t improve between them and they went years without speaking to each other.
However, while working on her new documentary, Demi reached out to Alyson, who is nonbinary and has stated their preference for “they” pronouns.
Demi had to assure Alyson that she had changed over the years before her former co-star agreed to be interviewed for the project.
She and Alyson sat down for an off-camera conversation that the latter described as “healing” before the recorded interview took place.
Alyson also had other concerns about the project, namely that “it would fall under the umbrella of E!’s sensational Hollywood stories that would then actually perpetuate what I call the chain from the child to the train disaster.”
Demi managed to allay those concerns and she and Alyson sat down to have a candid conversation about the travails of child stardom.
Alyson and Demi exchanged their reactions to seeing their digitally altered photos in magazines when they were still minors.
They also recalled that they had to be carefully “on brand” as squeaky-clean Disney Channel personalities, unlike the Nickelodeon teens, who Demi was jealous of because they were allowed to be a little more daring.
Alyson, who is nonbinary and has stated their preference for “they” pronouns, is appearing at San Diego Comic-Con International in 2022.
Demi was 15 and Alyson was 14 when Camp Rock first aired on Disney Channel in 2008, with the two starring alongside the Jonas Brothers; Demi and the Jonas Brothers appear in the film.
Two years later, they reunited for Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, but on that project, Alyson (right) had a tense experience working with Demi (left).
When they went on tour live to promote Camp Rock 2, things didn’t improve between them; they are pictured on stage in Mountain View, California, with Jordan ‘J’ Francis.
Demi explained that her “traumatic” experience of childhood stardom led to her having a problematic attitude during the making of Camp Rock 2.
“I think about the people in the costume department on my TV show because I would go in there in a bad mood all the time, and I would worry about the guest stars that came on or the other actors or the people during Camp Rock 2,” she said.
“And it’s easy to excuse that behavior because I was so young and I suffered a lot, but I truly regret it, and that’s a guilt that stays with you forever.”
Demi’s latest comments about her film come after JoJo Siwa, Drew Barrymore, Kenan Thompson and Raven-Symoné were revealed as guests for the Child Star interview.
It also emerged that the documentary will premiere on September 17 on Hulu, and will last approximately an hour and a half.
When Camp Rock aired, Demi, then 15, was already a Disney Channel star on the network’s sitcom As The Bell Rings, which aired from 2007 to 2008.
As she grew older, she rose to pop stardom and her personal problems began to come to light more and more.
Demi has said in the past that she “experimented” with drugs as a pre-teen, after being involved in an accident and being prescribed opioids.
Demi, 31, landed her breakthrough role on Barney & Friends (pictured) at the age of eight, and soon after became a Disney Channel personality.
He stole his father’s beer and his mother’s Xanax, and eventually tried cocaine at age 17, he admitted on Call Her Daddy.
In 2018, she was hospitalized after a near-fatal heroin overdose that caused three strokes and a heart attack, as well as lasting brain damage.
Three years ago, she controversially described herself as a “sober Californian,” meaning she was still using cannabis, which she later said she had also stopped.
She was also diagnosed with bipolar disorder and suffered from bulimia, binge eating and purging to the point that she once vomited blood.
Demi, who came out as nonbinary and stated their preference for the pronouns “she” and “they,” announced the documentary Child Star last year.