Lovato says her trip was “meant to be a spiritual experience for me, NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT.”
This week, the singer shared photos showing her being baptized in the Jordan River and visiting Jerusalem’s Western Wall and the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. While she called the trip “magical” and said it filled “the God-sized hole in my heart,” she’s now distancing herself from it after receiving backlash. The criticism was that she’s supporting the country amid its ongoing — and long-standing — conflict with Palestine.
“I’m extremely frustrated,” she wrote. “I accepted a free trip to Israel in exchange for a few [social media] posts. No one told me there would be anything wrong with going or that I could possibly be offending anyone.” She said it was “meant to be a spiritual experience for me, NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT and now I realize it hurt people and for that I’m sorry.”
She added that she was “going against all advice” to apologize “because it feels right to me and I’d rather get in trouble for being authentic to myself, than staying quiet to please other people.”The backlash had clearly taken a toll. Soon after she posted, “I’m exhausted.” That was followed by a post that said, “And by exhausted: Don’t wanna talk about this anymore,” including with “friends / family.
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