Demi Lovato responds to “ignorant” opinions about her pronoun update
Demi Lovato said that she is unbothered by the “ignorant people” angered by their recent pronoun update. The star came out as non-binary in May 2021 when she announced that she would be using they/them pronouns going forward.
She recently updated these to include she/her again, though still also goes by they/them. Lovato faced backlash from some trolls online after making the changes on her social media channels. “It doesn’t surprise me because there’s a lot of people out there who have an opinion on everything I say and do,” she told NPR. “But I just don’t read it.
It’s not important to me, and there’s so many ignorant people on the internet — you can’t pay attention to them all.” She further stated that their song Freak was inspired by their coming out process. “I started seeing in my Instagram comments – people just being really hateful,” Lovato explained. “I stopped paying attention to it, but it did affect me and I wrote this song Freak about it.” They continued: “I was like, ‘You already have this conception of me that I’m different and that I’m weird because I’m coming out as non-binary–because I’m speaking my truth.
And you know what, this is who I am, and I’m not afraid – I’m going to own this. And I’m taking the power back from what you have to say about this’.” Lovato’s eighth studio album, Holy Fvck, is out now.
