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 You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Demi Lovato, who had a difficult relationship with her father for many years and was estranged from him when he died from cancer June 22, paid her final respects to him on Twitter. 
 
 “Today I put my Daddy to rest…hardest thing I have ever done…But I know great things will come of this,” the singer wrote late Saturday. 
 
 “There is an overwhelming sense of peace knowing my dad is no longer battling his demons anymore and that makes me so happy…” 
 
 EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Demi Lovato With Dad Patrick Before She Was Famous 
 
 The X Factor judge said last week that her dad suffered from “mental illness” although she did not specifically identify what he struggled with. 
 
 And struggle Patrick Lovato did. 
 
 “I love Demi with all my heart,” he told Radar exclusively just two weeks before he died. “And her sister Dallas too. Demi was my little buddy and I never go one single day without thinking about how much I love her. I wish I could talk to her again. God knows I love her so much, my little buddy Demi.” 
 
 PHOTOS: Demi Lovato Poses For Cosmo On Campus ||||| "When I look at someone who's out there partying excessively or rappers rapping about doing drugs, who people look up to, and think, Oh that's a G; that's a gangster. I think, You're actually being a giant pussy. Sorry, but those rockers in the '80s were the furthest thing from rock stars. They were so insecure and so lonely that they had to do these things to get them through the day. If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party, what are you running away from? That's not a badass. What's a badass is when you can sit through your problems and feel emotions when you don't want to have them. There have been nights where I've had to sit on my hands, because I want to act out, because I physically can't sit still in the pain I'm dealing with, from looking back and being bullied or other things that happened. And now, as hard as it may be, I will do that. That's what makes me a badass. Being a badass is handling your shit." 
 
 "I'm not super religious, but I grew up Christian and I believe in God. When I'm in L.A., I don't talk about it that much because people are very judgmental, but I just feel like God gave me a voice, not just to sing with. He put me through those things, which seemed horrible at the time, but they were so worth it. With the obstacles I've overcome, I can help people.""My family knows what it's about. When I'm ready to open up that subject with the outside world, then I'll be free to talk about it. But right now, it's kind of one of those things where the lyrics speak for me. It's all in the song.""I look at birthdays as celebrating another year of life. You've made it another year. An entire year. Some people don't make it to 21." 
 
 "At the time, I was just so grateful to be on TV, but I was also really struggling. Looking back, there was a connection, probably between any kid who's ever sang that song to Barney, a little place in a child's heart, a void, that could be filled. And maybe Barney fills it. Even before Barney, I was suicidal. I was seven. With Barney, I guess subliminally, I did have a relationship with this figure that was saving my life in a way I've talked about being bullied and the years of being a teenager, but I went through things when I was younger that I've never talked about that probably caused me to turn out the way I ended up turning out."Did you know you can get your monthly issue of Cosmo on your e-reader? Its the same issue youd buy on the newsstand, but you can flip through it with the touch of your finger. Touch your device below to download. Youll be reading your favorite magazine in just minutes.Have a Kindle? Touch here Have a NOOK? Touch here Have an iPad? Touch here
– Demi Lovato was just 7 years old when she started appearing on Barney & Friends, but already she was battling depression. "At the time, I was just so grateful to be on TV, but I was also really struggling," says Lovato in the upcoming issue of Cosmopolitan. "Looking back, there was a connection, probably between any kid who's ever sang that song to Barney, a little place in a child's heart, a void, that could be filled. And maybe Barney fills it. Even before Barney, I was suicidal. I was 7." The 20-year-old went on to struggle with bulimia and self-harm as a teen. Lovato's estranged father Patrick died from cancer June 22, and she also recently eulogized him on Twitter, Radar reports. "Today I put my Daddy to rest.... hardest thing I've ever done," she wrote Saturday night. "There's an overwhelming sense of peace knowing my dad is no longer battling his demons anymore and that makes me so happy."