On Call Her Daddy, Demi Lovato talks about a new album, a return to sobriety, and what it feels like to turn 30. The questions in the Short come from the host. The answers below are Lovato's, in her own words.
Clip: Viral Podcast Shorts YouTube Short from the full source linked below.
The official YouTube description for the full episode, uploaded August 15, 2025, calls it a throwback that "originally aired on August 24, 2022." The Short itself does not give that date. That original air date falls a few days after the birthday listed on the Recording Academy page. According to the Recording Academy's artist page for Lovato, she was "Born Demetria Devonne 'Demi' Lovato on Aug. 20, 1992, in Albuquerque, New Mexico." That birth name and date are not mentioned in the Short either. They are here only to identify who is speaking.
This article stays with what she says in the clip. It does not add medical claims, and it does not go beyond her own account.
"I'm sober again and I feel great"
The host starts with the album. "I need to know how does this album reflect where you are in your life right now."
Lovato says there is "a journey to it." At the beginning, "you can hear my anger." She places that feeling after a return to treatment: "I left treatment in um December this last year um getting help again," she says, "and um I'm sober again and and I feel great."
She is careful, even in that same breath, to hold onto the mood she walked out with. "There was all these emotions that I left treatment with," she says, "and I wanted to convey them in my music." The first few songs, as she describes them, are "really angry," with a stance she sums up as, "this is who I am take it or leave it."
She also knows what people were saying. "I know what you're saying about me online," she says, "like Demi leaves rehab again." Her reply is direct: "I I see you I hear you."
Then the record, in her telling, starts to change with her. "As I started to heal," she says, "I was like, you know what? I'm actually like getting happier."
She does not name the album in the Short. This article does not supply a title she does not use there.
Turning 30
The second part of the Short is a different question from the host: "What does turning 30 mean to you?"
Lovato does not pretend it is simple. "To be honest, I've had a little anxiety," she says. "My 20s were like such a mess. Like I was trying to figure myself out. I didn't know who I was." A lot had happened, she says, without spelling those years out in the clip.
What she does describe is a slower arrival at herself. "Over the past couple years," she says, she has "eased into who I am." And then this year, she says, "Oh, I know who I am."
That is the turn she wants to mark. "So turning 30 to me has been like I'm excited for my 30s and what that holds."
The Short does not say what comes next, or spell out a program, a diagnosis, or a timeline beyond "December this last year," "the past couple years," and "this year." It leaves her where she puts herself: sober again, happier than she was when she left treatment, and, at 30, finally able to say she knows who she is.
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FAQ
What is Demi Lovato's real name?
According to the Recording Academy's artist page, she was born Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato on August 20, 1992, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That name is not mentioned in the Short.
What does she say about sobriety in the clip?
She says she left treatment in December of the previous year, getting help again, and that she is "sober again" and feels "great." She also says she left treatment with a lot of emotions, which she wanted to put into the first, angry songs on the album, and that as she started to heal she was "getting happier."
Does she name the album in the Short?
No. She talks about "this album" and the journey inside it. This article does not add a title from outside the clip.
What does turning 30 mean to her here?
She says she has had a little anxiety, that her 20s were "such a mess," and that she did not know who she was. Over the past couple of years she has eased into who she is, and this year she can say, "Oh, I know who I am." She is excited for her 30s.