Author: Demi Lovato

Lovato was a child actor on Barney and then on Disney, and has spent an adult career being publicly ill and publicly recovering. Staying Strong is a book of daily entries written after treatment in her teens. In 2018 she came very close to dying after a relapse, had three strokes and a heart attack, and has said since that she was left with permanent brain damage and impaired vision. She was diagnosed bipolar as a young adult and has more recently said that diagnosis was wrong. All of this is in the record because she put it there herself, repeatedly and at length, which is the only reason it belongs in a note about her books.