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“When you punch someone on a plane, enough is enough.”

So says Demi Lovato in the latest issue of Elle, opening up about the confrontation with Alex Welch, a backup dancer on her tour last fall, that finally made Demi realize: Wow, I need help.

But the personal issues, later attributed to Bipolar Disorder, started much earlier than December, when the aforementioned incident took place.

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“I was completely out of line all summer,” Lovato says. “Just the worst attitude – totally ungrateful.”

 
How much of a role did her split with Joe Jonas play in Demi’s downfall and eventual treatment center stay? None, really, she says: “I wouldn’t credit my meltdown to a guy. There was so much other stuff in my life.”

Pick up the September issue of Elle to read more from the singer – including her experience with bullying as a child – and click on the following images to enlarge shots from her magazine spread: