On Tuesday (December 10th), Access Hollywood aired the first part of Kit Hoover’s exclusive sit down interview with Demi Lovato and her mom, Dianna Hart De La Garza, in which the pair revealed some shocking realities about the extent and severity of Demi’s eating disorders and substance abuse issues in the past. Dianna also opened up about her own battles with an eating disorder and depression, and the shared road to recovery the two are on now.

In the second half of the interview, aired Wednesday (Dec. 11th), Demi spoke of what she called the most “taboo” of her problems, by society’s standards: cutting and self-harm. She and Dianna also revealed the emotional details of the intervention that finally got Demi to agree to treatment and it happened to involve a very real threat that Demi understood all too well: get better or she wouldn’t be allowed to see her…