Demi Lovato returns to Met Gala eight years after calling it 'fake'
Demi Lovato at Met Gala 2024
Eight years after dissing the Met Gala, singer Demi Lovato made an unexpected return to the event on Monday night (May 6). The singer had vowed to never return to the fashion's biggest night after her experience at the 2016 edition of the gala.
The 31-year-old artist looked stunning in a silver Prabal Gurung gown with shimmering floral accents, perfectly aligning with the gala's theme, 'Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.'
She completed her look with De Beers jewels, including a 64-carat diamond necklace and 16-carat diamond earrings.
Lovato's 2024 Met Gala ensemble marked a significant departure from her attire at the same event in 2016. Back then she had worn a a sequined silver Moschino gown with intricate gold detailing and black highlights.
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Later, Lovato had expressed dissatisfaction with her experience at the Met and had vowed not to return.
Following her 2016 Met Gala debut, the singer shared a now-deleted photo on social media with hashtags like "#cool #sof—kingawkward #notforme."
The image showed her on the red carpet with Nicki Minaj, who appeared to be giving her a side-eye glance.
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She captioned the photo, "This picture pretty much summed up my first and probably last met (sic)," indicating her discomfort with the event.
Later in an interview with Billboard in 2018, Lovato described her "terrible experience" at the 2016 Met Gala.
She recounted an unpleasant encounter with another celebrity (most speculated it to be Minaj) and admitted feeling so uncomfortable that she wanted to drink.
The singer confessed to leaving the event early to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting, still wearing her expensive diamond jewellery.
She stated, "I changed my clothes, but I still had my diamonds on—millions of dollars of diamonds on in an AA meeting."
Lovato said she felt more connected with the homeless people at the AA meeting, who were dealing with similar struggles (with addiction) than with the attendees at the Met Gala.
She had described the gala as "fake and sucking the fashion industry's d—k."
Following Lovato's opinions on the gala, rumours circulated that Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief who meticulously plans every detail of the gala, had barred her from attending future events.
