The Film, “Crucial Intentions” Made Demi Lovato Discern She Was Queer

For most of us who have watched Crucial Intentions, it’s a guilty-pleasure teen drama. But for Demi Lovato, she says it’s a crucial disclosure. She got to know that she was queer for the first time after watching the makeout scene between Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar in the 1999 film.

She said, “It was definitely when I was young and should not have been watching Cruel Intentions, but I did and it was that scene where they made out on the park lawn,” the singer said. “I was just like, ‘Oh, wait a minute — I really like that, I wanna try it.’” “And then, when I was like 17, I did get down with that,” she continued. “And that’s when I knew.”

Lovato has disclosed that her sexuality is “very fluid” and “queer.” (Lately, she broke up with her fiancé Max Ehrich after a two-month engagement.) She revealed further about her “stages” of coming out to France, noticing that she started disclosing to her companions when she was 17.

She said, “I pretty much told all of my friends and my older sister when I was 17,” Lovato said. “They all knew before I brought it to my parents and then to the public. Those were my three phases: Friends, parents, public.”

She further said, “There were times I wrote songs about girls that my fans thought I wrote about guys,” she added. “I’m surprised that some of them didn’t figure out that some of the songs were for certain people. I was sharing it with the world, and yet I wasn’t being completely obvious with what I was talking about. Music was my safe space.”