Raven-Symone tells Demi Lovato to her face she ‘wasn’t the nicest’ to work with

Disney Channel icon Raven-Symone has told chap teen prima Demi Lovato she wasn’t “the nicest person” to enactment with during their years connected the children’s network.

Lovato, present 32, has rallied a big of erstwhile teen idols to talk arsenic portion of her caller Hulu documentary movie Child Star, which sees the US vocalist interrogation guests astir the difficulties of increasing up successful the spotlight.

Lovato, who changeable to fame connected the 2008 Disney Channel archetypal movie Camp Rock earlier landing her ain show Sonny with a Chance a twelvemonth later, has been candid astir her troubled years navigating aboriginal fame, which included a past cocaine addiction and respective stints successful rehabilitation centres.

Raven-Symone, for her part, landed her ain bid That’s So Raven successful 2003, which became a history-making ratings occurrence for the network. The present 38-year-old went connected to impermanent prima connected 1 occurrence of Lovato’s amusement successful 2010, revealing the acquisition wasn’t wholly pleasant.

Speaking with Lovato successful her documentary, Raven-Symone candidly told her she wasn’t “the nicest person” to beryllium astir on-set.

“You weren’t like, ‘Welcome!’ You weren’t doing that,” she continued.

“But being the benignant of idiosyncratic I americium and that I’ve been successful the manufacture arsenic agelong arsenic you, and I recognize the glaze implicit the eyes, I didn’t clasp it against you.

“I conscionable was like, ‘Something’s going connected there.’”

Lovato confessed she didn’t adjacent retrieve Raven-Symone impermanent starring.

“When we archetypal got connected the telephone to speech astir this project, I was like, ‘I watched you on That’s So Raven, [you’re] specified an inspiration …’ And you were like, ‘B**ch, I was connected your show.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my God, she was’,” Lovato said.

“But it was portion of my disassociation that I don’t adjacent retrieve truthful overmuch of my amusement that I was on. But I bash retrieve however hard I was to enactment with, due to the fact that I was successful truthful overmuch symptom and I was hurting.”

Lovato antecedently revealed she had been near with encephalon damage, among different ongoing ailments, aft a near-fatal cause overdose successful 2018.

The prima told speech amusement big Andy Cohen connected his SiriusXM amusement past twelvemonth she was present sober.

“That overdose caused me, you know, it really caused a disability. I person imaginativeness impairment and proceeding impairment to this day,” Lovato said.

“It’s a regular changeless reminder. You know, anytime I look astatine something, like, I person unsighted spots successful my imaginativeness erstwhile I look astatine your face. And truthful it’s a changeless reminder to enactment connected the close way due to the fact that I ne'er privation that to hap again.”

Child Star is present streaming connected Disney+