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Demi Lovato: I Was Bullied!
Wednesday October 1, 2008

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Demi Lovato arrives at the City of Hope benefit concert at the Gibson Amphitheater on September 14, 2008 in Universal City, CA.
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Demi Lovato knows all about mean girls.

On Wednesday's The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Camp Rock star, 16, reveals she was bullied in the seventh grade.

Eventually, the taunting got so bad, she had to be home-schooled.

"I never really understood why [I was being bullied] until looking back," says Lovato, who suspects her classmates were jealous she was a child star. "I had a different lifestyle than everyone else."

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Now Lovato (who was famously mocked by Miley Cyrus in a YouTube video) says she wants to use her fame to be a role model for young girls.

"I want to help with bullying because there are girls who can't just up and home-school and focus on their career," she says.

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DeGeneres applauds Lovato for her efforts.

"The seventh grade ... is just so horrible," the talk show host says. "It doesn't matter if you're popular, if you're not popular. Kids can be cruel."

Adds DeGeneres, "You get you're feelings hurt and that's just not fair. And somebody has to stop it."

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