“I choose to look at it as a learning lesson, a growing lesson, and I wish everyone involved well. And I’m rooting for everyone to win because I don’t believe in rooting for people to lose,” Scooter shared on NPR’s The Limits with Jay Williamspodcast.
The music manager added how he had signed an NDA that barred him from talking to any of the artists involved in the purchase.
“The regret I have there is that I made the assumption that everyone, once the deal was done, was going to have a conversation with me, see my intent, see my character and say, great, let’s be in business together,” he said.
Click inside to see more of Scooter’s thoughts on the situation…
Justine Skye steps out for the premiere of Justin Bieber: Our World held at EDGE at Hudson Yards on Tuesday night (September 14) in New York City.
The 26-year-old singer showed her support for her friend Justin Bieber and his new Prime Video documentary.
Also in attendance were The Kid LAROI and girlfriend Katarina Deme, Justin and wife Hailey Bieber, managers Scooter Braun and Allison Kaye, director Michael D Ratner and executive producer Rory Kramer.
The premiere also included a special performance from Justin.
The third episode of Demi Lovato‘s Dancing With The Devil docu-series has premiered!
In the ep, the 28-year-old entertainer opens up about relapsing on heroin after her overdose, signing with new management with Scooter Braun, and even how Rihanna influenced her decision to not speak out about her sexual abuse.
The episode kicked off with Demi telling her friend / former choreographer Dani Vitale how happy she was that she was able to clear her name, and Dani also opened up about all of trauma and the work she lost out on following the star’s overdose because of people thinking that she was involved.
Demi then talked about how her business manager, Glenn Nordinger, and head of security / chief of staff Max Lea have been a great support system. Demi‘s next move following her overdose, Glenn asked what she wanted to do and she said she wanted to get back to making music.
She opened up about how she wanted to get a new management team and that Scooter was her only choice. If you missed it, he originally didn’t want to sign with her, but then this other client helped convince him. He then said that he didn’t want anyone else to sign her and that he wanted to protect her.
In the episode, Demi also revealed that she had relapsed on heroin following her overdose. After a week long trauma retreat, she reached out to the same guy who supplied her before, and she also wanted to try to take back the control and power after he took advantage of her the night of her overdose. Demi did admit, “I was mortified at my decisions,” in regards to doing the drugs that almost killed her.
As for her sexual trauma, Demi talked about being losing her virginity to a rape when she was a teen. She shared that Rihanna played a part in why she hasn’t come forward about it in the past.
“Honestly, ever since I watched Rihanna and her pictures get leaked after the Chris Brown incident, I was very uncomfortable with even more of my story playing out in the press, and then also people not believing me,” Demi said.
The final part of the episode talked about Demi stepping back into the spotlight with music, performing at the 2020 Grammys, where she sang “Anyone,” a song she wrote three days before her overdose, and also performing at the Super Bowl. The ending started to talk about the pandemic, and teased the next episode where she will talk about her engagement and going into quarantine with her now ex and her family.
Demi Lovato wears a black and white dress to the premiere of her new YouTube docu-series Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil on Monday night (March 22) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 28-year-old entertainer switched up her outfit later in the night to perform the title track for the crowd at the drive-in event, held on top of a parking garage at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
“Tonight’s performance of ‘Dancing With The Devil’ from the @YouTube Documentary Premiere… @OBB @ratty #DemiDWTD So incredibly proud of you, @ddlovato,” Demi‘s mom Dianna De La Garza captioned a video on Twitter. Watch below!
Demi also performed her song “Anyone,” which will be the first track on her new album Dancing With The Devil… The Art of Starting Over, out NEXT Friday, April 2nd.
Also in attendance at the premiere was Demi‘s manager Scooter Braun, with wife Yael, and the director of the docu-series, Michael D Ratner.
The first two episodes of Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil premiere TODAY (March 23) at 12pm PT on YouTube, with the next two episodes premiering the following two Tuesdays.
FYI: Demi is wearing a Martin Martin dress, Kwiat jewelry, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes and a Misela clutch on the carpet. For her performance, she is wearing a Balenciaga top, Givenchy pants, Jen Zuener and David Yurman jewelry, and Giuseppe Zanotti shoes.
It was revealed in a new feature for the New York Times that the 27-year-old “Rain On Me” Grammy winner told him he had to sign the 28-year-old entertainer.
“I saw that she was scared, like, no one’s going to take me on,” Scooter shared. “I asked Ariana’s opinion and she said, ‘Let me go to coffee with her.’ And by the time she got home, she texted me: ‘You have to take her on, this is my friend. I want to know she’s safe.’”
Demi announced on May 11, 2019 that she signed with Scooter to be her new manager, after leaving her previous, longtime management team.
