Demi Lovato is on a roll this week: fresh off her incredibly moving and inspiring performance of "Skyscraper" at the iHeart Living Room Concert on Sunday, she’s back out here (metaphorically, of course) hitting up Jimmy Fallon’s at-home edition of
The Tonight Show for some craft shenanigans and major name-drops.Via video-chat, Demi and Jimmy
painted each other’s portraits from the isolation of their own homes, and she treated us to a performance of her new song, "I Love Me," but it was when Demi got to talking about her celebrity-laden FaceTime group, we really turned up the volume.“There’s like this giant FaceTime group chat that my manager started—Scooter [Braun]—and he just called like 30 random celebrities,” she laughed, “and it’s actually really funny because the first night that I got on, I answered the phone and it was Bill Clinton on FaceTime. He was like the guest of honour.”Jimmy then had the most relatable one-word reaction; “What?!”
“All of a sudden, I see Ariana [Grande] and Katy Perry and all these celebrities and Scooter and every night it’s somebody new, it’s a 'guest of honour'... I freaked out over
Mark from Love is Blind.”OMG, Demi you too? Mark was our
Love Is Blind dark horse and Jessica did not deserve his undying love. But anyway... Demi is a well-documented
reality TV lover, so her being starstruck most by Mark makes sense. She added that one night there was someone from
Tiger King too, but didn't elaborate on who. She also didn't elaborate on how the general population can listen in on the group, so that's a major bummer. Sorry, guys.[video_embed id='6145773023001']RELATED: Watch Demi Lovato’s emotional ‘Skyscraper’ performance at the iHeart Living Room Concert[/video_embed]Demi wasn’t only there to namedrop (although we appreciate it!); she also wanted to talk seriously about how physical distancing, self-isolation and constant news updates about COVID-19 can really take a toll on our mental health.“We’re alone with our thoughts right now,” the 27-year-old singer explained. “Some of us are at home alone, some people don’t have family with them, they don’t have pets, and so it’s really just them and their minds. Those voices in your head can get really loud, I call them roommates. The roommates in your head, they can be just as annoying as a real roommate. So you have to learn to quiet those voices, a lot of times it helps with meditation, it helps with if you have a higher power that you believe in, playing with animals, reading... whatever you can do to continue to grow spiritually and emotionally while we’re stuck in these houses.”The "Cool for the Summer" singer knows a thing or two about mental health struggles, as she has made a conscious effort in recent months to talk publicly about her 2018
overdose and her subsequent rehabilitation in the hopes of raising awareness and letting other girls and women know they’re not alone in their struggles.They closed out Demi's appearance with a push to raise awareness for her cause of choice—something Jimmy's been doing every night since he started the
At Home version of his show. Demi was there to promote
#cut50, an initiative to cut incarceration rates in the U.S. by making the justice system fairer and less hostile to non-violent offenders. Leave it to Demi Lovato to cover it all—from ridiculous portraits, to reality TV, to charities to mental health.[video_embed id='1931593']BEFORE YOU GO: Jack Black on TikTok is what the world needs right now[/video_embed]
