Demi Lovato returned to the frozen yogurt place that she critiqued four years earlier for its “triggering” products.
In a TikTok posted Wednesday, Lovato lip-synched to an old viral audio of herself saying, “I left that yogurt store and didn’t get the yogurt that I wanted” before dancing around Los Angeles’ The Bigg Chill while eating frozen yogurt.
In 2021, Lovato went viral after she posted on her Instagram story that seeing The Bigg Chill’s sugar-free options was “triggering and awful” for her because she was recovering from an eating disorder.
“Finding it extremely hard to order froyo from @thebiggchillofficial when you have to walk past tons of sugar free cookies/other diet foods before you get to the counter. Do better please,” she wrote.
The Bigg Chill pushed back at the time, writing that it carries options for customers who have diabetes and celiac disease, options for vegans, as well as “many indulgent items.”
Several people, including “The Real Housewives of New York” star Leah McSweeney, criticized Lovato for missing the mark and calling out a small business with only 6,000 Instagram followers at the time.
The Bigg Chill and Lovato went back and forth several more times before Lovato finally apologized. She offered to work with the frozen yogurt store on its messaging.
“I’m so sorry if it got misconstrued,” she said in a video posted on Instagram. “I don’t always get this right. I speak my mind. I’m opinionated and sometimes I get labeled as problematic … everything I’m doing is well-intentioned.”
The bad blood between the two seems to be in the past, however. Lovato posted another TikTok on Wednesday with the caption “you make me happy @The Bigg Chill.” The yogurt store shared Lovato’s videos on its Instagram story.
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