Demi Lovato fires back at Piers Morgan for calling her ‘repulsively arrogant’ after she ‘bullied’ frozen yogurt store
DEMI Lovato has clapped back at Piers Morgan after he branded her "repulsively arrogant" over her row with a frozen yogurt store.
The singer, 28, hit out at LA shop The Bigg Chill for "triggering" her eating disorder with their selection of sugar-free cookies and diet foods.
urged the store to "do better" in catering towards people with eating disorders and called them "diet culture vultures".
"Finding it extremely hard to order froyo from @thebiggchillofficial when you have to walk past tons of sugar free cookies / other diet foods before you get to the counter. Do better please," she wrote over the weekend.
She then wrote in a second post: "So, I think I'm gonna have to make that hashtag a thing.
"I will be calling harmful messaging from brands or companies that perpetuate a society that not only enables but praises disordered eating."
She vowed to work with the store to "get the messaging right".
Addressing Piers' comments, she went on: "It's really important that everyone understands that my intentions were not to bully a small business, that was not it."
"I walked in, it was so triggering that I left without fro-yo and made me really sad."
The actress previously revealed the bulimia began when she was eight and is still "constantly" in the back of her mind.
After rehab, she moved into a sober-living facility in Los Angeles for over a year, and and
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