00:00I feel like people don't understand, like, that that's what we was dealing with.
00:03I found myself dating. I'm 15. Why is my boyfriend 20?
00:07Uh, why was my boyfriend 30?
00:09Girl!
00:10You know what I'm saying?
00:11Demi Lovato called out her 12-year age gap relationship with her ex-boyfriend,
00:15Wilmer Valderrama, without naming him.
00:18But we all know who she's talking about.
00:20It all went down in the latest episode of Kiki Palmer's podcast.
00:23Demi was 18 and Wilmer was 30 when they started dating in 2010.
00:27Looking back on it, though, the singer said it was not okay.
00:31Nobody our age could understand, but then you look back in hindsight, when I turned 30, I was like, that's
00:35not okay.
00:36Demi and Kiki bonded over both being child stars.
00:40Demi rose to fame on the Disney Channel, and Kiki was the star of True Jackson on Nickelodeon.
00:45Kiki described it as an almost mental break when she later realized moments when she was being taken advantage of
00:51and even exploited as a young star.
00:53She said dating older men could be how young women find outlets and process fame at an early age.
00:59On the pod, Demi also confirmed that she wrote her 2022 rock ballad, 29, about being with an older guy.
01:06The song references Wilmer's age when they first met, 29, while she was 17, or in her words, too young
01:13to drink wine.
01:14Take a listen.
01:15Just five years of bleeder, student and a teacher, far from innocent, what the f***s can send?
01:25Numbers told you not to, but that didn't stop you.
01:31Previously in her 2017 doc, Simply Complicated, Demi called it love at first sight when she first met the That
01:3870s Show star at his house in January, 2010.
01:41When I laid eyes on him for the first time, I was in hair and makeup, and he came in
01:46and sat down, and I was like,
01:47I love this man, and I have to have him, but I was only 17.
01:52So he was like, get away from me.
01:54They waited to start dating until she turned 18, and the exes remained friendly after their 2016 split.
02:00He even visited her in the hospital after her overdose two years later.
02:04Wilmer is currently engaged to Amanda Pacheco.
02:06They have two children, and Demi tied the knot last year to the rocker Jordan Jutes Lutz.
02:11For more on this story, head to page6.com.
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