Demi Lovato appeared to indicate that her previous relationship with Wilmer Valderrama — who’s 12 years her senior — was due to her “daddy points.”
Throughout an look on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Present on Monday, September 11, Lovato, 31, stated it was “gross” that she dated older males at such a younger age. “I feel what I went by is that I had a section of courting older males and courting older guys,” she stated. “I went by a section once I was interested in older guys due to my daddy points, clearly.”
Lovato and Valderrama, 43, dated on and off for six years from 2010 to 2016.
“For me, I used to be a youngster,” she informed radio host Howard Stern. “I feel that once you’re in these improvement[al] years, it is best to completely not be with any individual that’s older than you by that a lot. It’s simply unhealthy and poisonous.”
In her 2017 documentary, Merely Difficult, Lovato recalled assembly Valderrama when she was 17 years outdated and he was 29.
“I met him on January 11 of 2010, and it was at a PSA shoot at his home for the 2010 census varieties. To be sincere, I solely did it as a result of I heard it was at his home and I assumed he was actually cute,” Lovato confessed. “I didn’t actually care in regards to the census varieties. However [when] I met him and I laid eyes on him for the primary time, I used to be in hair and make-up and he got here in and sat down and I used to be like, ‘I really like this man and I’ve to have him.’”

Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama on the 2016 Self-importance Honest Oscar Occasion. Jon Kopaloff/Getty Photos
Lovato asserted that they started courting after she turned 18, referring to their connection as “love at first sight.”
Regardless of their breakup, Lovato stated in Merely Difficult that her “coronary heart is at all times with Wilmer.”
“You don’t share six years with any individual and never give them a chunk of your coronary heart and vice versa,” she defined. “I’m fairly certain I’m not going to satisfy anyone that compares to him, however I’m attempting to maintain an open coronary heart and an open thoughts on the subject of that.”
Nevertheless, Lovato seemingly modified her tune final yr when she launched the track “29” from her Holy Fvck album. Whereas she by no means confirmed that the track was about Valderrama, followers had been fast to take a position upon listening to the lyrics.
“Lastly 29 / Humorous, similar to you had been on the time,” she sings. “Thought it was a teenage dream / only a fantasy / However was it yours or was it mine?”
Lovato is now “in a tremendous relationship” with music producer Jordan Lutes, who she started courting in summer time 2022. “We’re rising collectively and it feels so wholesome,” she shared throughout her Howard Stern Present look.
“I can say with confidence that my daddy points aren’t something which can be within me anymore,” Lovato added. “And I feel there’s a number of indicators to that. I’m with a accomplice that’s my age, basically.”