Demi Lovato is all about that honesty.
But the problem with Lovato's signature candor is that, while it has earned her millions
of devoted fans, it's also made her quite a few high-profile enemies along the way.
From her unfiltered nature in interviews to her occasional Twitter rants, these are the
stars who aren't picking up what Lovato's putting down.
Taylor Swift
Lovato has had an on-again, off-again beef with Taylor Swift since 2010.
She's shaded the "Bad Blood" singer numerous times, most famously in February 2016 when
she slammed Swift's $250,000 donation to Kesha.
Lovato tweeted,
"Not everyone has 250k to just give to people.
[...] I'm just tired of seeing women use 'women empowerment' and 'feminism' to further brands
without actually being the ones that have the uncomfortable conversations."
By November 2016, Lovato was still salty about Swift, telling Glamour,
"I think that having a song and a video about tearing Katy Perry down, that's not women's
empowerment."
As for Swift?
She's reportedly not a fan.
A source close to Swift told E! News,
"[Swift] thought it was unnecessary for [Lovato] to make those comments.
They both have never been really good friends."
Nicki Minaj
Lovato and Nicki Minaj were both Moschino designer Jeremy Scott's guests at the 2016
Met Gala.
But when Minaj posted a pic with Lovato and Scott but only tagged Scott, Lovato then lashed
out, posting: "When you aren't mentioned in a post but didn't do s--- to the person."
In 2018, Lovato told Billboard of the 2016 gala,
"This one celebrity was a complete b---- and was miserable to be around.
[...] I remember being so uncomfortable that I wanted to drink.
I changed my clothes, but I still had my diamonds on — millions of dollars of diamonds at
an AA meeting."
Minaj hasn't addressed the alleged beef, but we have a feeling a diss track may be in the
works.
Mariah Carey
In June 2016, Lovato ignited a feud with the Queen Of Shade herself, Mariah Carey.
Lovato commented on a meme comparing Carey favorably to Ariana Grande.
She wrote,
"Mariah is a legend and so talented but constantly disses people.
[...] The woman is mean for no reason."
When Andy Cohen brought up Lovato's remarks in December 2016, Carey replied,
"She should come up, introduce herself to me, say, 'Here's my opinion, what do you think
about it?'
That's how you handle s---, OK?"
Perez Hilton
Perez Hilton lashed out at Lovato in a July 2016 Twitter spree, writing, "I'm nice to
the people I feel deserve me being nice to.
I'm done being fake with [Demi Lovato]."
He then posted screencaps of a conversation in which Lovato told him to quit liking mean
tweets about her beef with Mariah Carey.
In response, Hilton called her a hypocrite for liking mean tweets about Taylor Swift.
Hilton was later seen at one of Lovato's March 2018 concerts, and the singer later tweeted
of the show, "The other night I got to sing ['Sorry Not Sorry'] directly to one of [the]
USA's most notorious bullies.
It felt so f------ great."
Hilton responded with a petty video calling Lovato a bully, and moaning,
"Demi Lovato has a lot of issues" "She's not Taylor Swift.
She's not Selena Gomez.
And it must not be easy for her."
Kathy Griffin
Kathy Griffin's beef with Lovato seemed to begin in 2014, when she tweeted that "Debbie
Lovato" was the "biggest douche celebrity" she'd ever met.
Lovato then tweeted and deleted a selfie she'd taken while making a grossed out face with
Griffin in the background, writing, "Only a douche to people I can't stand."
Three years later, when Griffin came under fire for her controversial Trump-themed photoshoot,
Lovato had the last laugh at the comedienne's expense.
After Griffin's sobbing press conference about the pictorial, Lovato tweeted, "I find it
funny when bullies play the victims … Oops, I spilled my tea."
Halsey
Lovato, who identifies as sexually fluid, briefly beefed with openly bisexual singer
Halsey.
In June 2017, Halsey told Paper magazine,
"[I don't like that] bisexuality [is seen] as a taboo: 'Don't tell your mom,' or 'We
shouldn't do this,' or 'This feels so wrong but it's so right.'"
Many rightfully interpreted it as a reference to Lovato's hit 2015 song "Cool For The Summer,"
in which she sings about lusting after another girl and includes the lyric "Don't tell your
mother."
Lovato responded: "You know a song is a hit when people are still talking about the lyrics
two years later."
Halsey then tweeted and deleted a series of missives directed at Lovato, including one
that read, "Thanks for the text back that everything is all good and you know what I
meant, but keep letting the press drag me in your benefit."
The pair seem to have since buried the hatchet by the end of July 2017.
Zendaya
Lovato beefed with fellow Disney darling Zendaya way back in 2013.
M magazine reported that Lovato criticized Disney for airing an eating disorder joke
in an episode of Zendaya's then-show on the network, Shake It Up.
She tweeted,
"Is it just me or are the actresses getting THINNER AND THINNER […] I miss the days
of RAVEN, and LIZZIE MCGUIRE […] Dear Disney Channel, EATING DISORDERS ARE NOT SOMETHING
TO JOKE ABOUT."
Zendaya didn't com ment, but her father tweeted: "[Demi Lovato] my daughter looks up to you
and admires you greatly.
[…] What Disney said is one thing but when you commented on her body type you did exactly
what they did."
Lovato then apologized, but it wasn't the first time she slighted Zendaya to promote
her own idea of body positivity.
In 2015 when Zendaya was honored with her very own Barbie doll, instead of congratulating
her, Lovato tweeted: "Hey Barbie, what about a curvy doll or one with true to size measurements?
I'll model!"
Barbie has since launched a body-positive line, but so far, none of them have a thing
for Twitter rants.
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