Disney star Demi Lovato enters rehab

By Staff Writer

This week, Disney star Demi Lovato checked into rehab for emotional and physical issues she has dealt with for some time, according to her representative. MTV reports that the young actress and singer left the worldwide Jonas Brothers tour she was performing on to attend a treatment facility for a potential eating disorder and self-mutilation. The singer also shut down her Twitter page over the weekend.

An unnamed source close to Lovato's family revealed that the singer was bullied at school and that the trauma of that bullying has stayed with her, according to People magazine.

In the recent wake of a string of suicides by teens who were taunted for their sexuality, Lovato teamed with the PACER Center as part of their Teens Against Bullying campaign last month, which aims to bring hope to kids who have been harassed by peers.

The star wrote a letter to bullying victims, telling them that she was bullied in middle school, and that it got so bad she chose to leave and be home-schooled. She added that many people think of bullying as getting beat up in school, but it can be emotional and verbal abuse as well.

According to the National Eating Disorders Association, as many as 10 million women are fighting a life-or-death battle with some type of eating disorder.