Lucy Hale Opens Up For The First Time About Eating Disorders, Relationships & Addiction

You have to go to a dark place sometimes to like get to that point. Ooh. Um

So excited to have Lucy Hale. She's been in the spotlight since she was just a kid. Stars on the hit show, pretty little liars, and now I'm the movie star. Not what you were expecting. You might be the first real deep conversation I've had. It's dark, disgusting, and scary. I wish I could go back and tell my 16 year old self, buckle up, girl, we're gonna go through some. Where is it? When we have those successes in life, we have an assumption that it'll fix a bunch of stuff. What didn't it fix? I struggled with the eating disorder because society makes it really freaking hard. To like the way you look. I hated myself so much that I couldn't even give it basic needs like food. I did not feel worthy of the success or the career or the people in my life. And then the coping mechanisms were like incredibly self-destructive. I've been working on getting sober since I was twenty. I just like held on to that belief that real Lucy came out when she was drinking.

I tried to change for my mom. I tried to change for my career. One of my best friends died of alcoholism, and that still didn't make me want to get sober. None of that. Works. Alcohol isn't the problem. The problem is this feeling inside of me. I have to try it a different way. Was there a darkest day? Uh

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