Demi Lovato is again using her original pronouns.
On the “Spout” podcast, host Tamara Dhia — who referred to the “Confident” singer using “they” and “them” during transitions between topics — asked the 29-year-old former Disney star if she could help her better understand the use of they/them pronouns.
“Yeah, so, they/them is, um, I’ve actually adopted the pronouns of she/her again,” Lovato explained.
“So, for me, I’m such a fluid person that I don’t really — I don’t find that I am — I felt like, especially last year, my energy was balanced in my masculine and feminine energy so that when I was faced with the choice of walking into a bathroom and it said ‘women’ and ‘men,’ I didn’t feel like there was a bathroom for me because I didn’t feel necessarily like a woman. I didn’t feel like a man. I just felt like a human,” she said.
“And that’s what they/them is about for me. It’s just about, like, feeling human at your core,” Lovato continued, saying she uses all four pronouns now, as is reflected in her Instagram bio. “Recently, I’ve been feeling more feminine, and so I’ve adopted she/her again. But I think what’s important is, like, nobody’s perfect.
“Everyone messes up pronouns at some point, especially when people are learning,” she concluded. “It’s just all about respect.”
Dhia clarified Lovato’s statement Tuesday after some confusion online.
“For the record: Demi Lovato did NOT say she is abandoning they/them as her pronouns, she simply said she is adding she/her. Please listen to the entire clip,” she said.
“Media friends, it’s important to get this right.”
In May 2021, Lovato announced that they identified as nonbinary and would be adopting the pronouns they/them on her podcast “4D With Demi Lovato.”
“I feel that this best represents the fluidity I feel in my gender expression, and allows me to feel most authentic and true to the person I both know I am and still am discovering,” the singer said at the time.
On April 7, Lovato captioned a series of Instagram photos with: “You call me they, but I’m still daddy’s girl.”
But in late April, according to Out, Lovato quietly updated her pronouns in her Instagram bio to she/her and they/them.
In May, the “Skin of my Teeth” rocker showed off her “duality” with a set of “love” and “fear” tattoos on her collarbones.
Lovato has also wavered in their sobriety after a near-fatal heroin and fentanyl overdose in 2018. As she sang on her 2021 album “Dancing With the Devil: The Art of Starting Over,” she was “California sober” — meaning she did not use drugs, except for weed and alcohol in moderation.
However, that lasted only a few months before she informed fans that she was totally sober on Dec. 2.
“Sober sober is the only way to be,” Lovato said in an Instagram Story.
She would complete a rehab stint in Utah a month later.
Just a few weeks ago, on July 21, Lovato told Boston radio station Mix 104.1 that she “rarely” thinks about drugs anymore.
“I’m in such acceptance of my life the way that it is that I really rarely think about substances, which is a beautiful thing and something that I never thought would happen to me,” she said.
“And I just realized that none of it works for me. What’s come into my life is acceptance.”
Lovato’s rock album “Holy Fvck” drops on Aug. 19. She will kick off her North American tour in support the album on Aug. 13 in Springfield, Illinois. The tour will bring her to the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side on Oct. 18.
