Demi Lovato Discusses Gender Identity, Why She was 'Relieved' After Receiving Her Bipolar Diagnosis & Why She Doesn't Read Instagram Comments

On staying out of the comments section…

“If I see something negative, it’s going to hurt my feelings, and if I see something positive, it’s going to feed into that outside validation that I’ve worked so hard to not need, and that goes back to my child star days of needing outside validation,” she explained. “So, I don’t look at comments because [they’re] either going to hurt me or feed that.”