In September of 2016 I noticed a mainstream media story, which was just one of those filler bullshit clickbait articles that nobody really thinks about, especially the people getting paid to publish them, and it stated “Demi Lovato now co-owns the rehab center where she received treatment.”
Immediately many alarm bells went off. Such as, why?
As it turns out, Lovato was being mentored by an opportunist fraud, a businessman, named Mike Bayer, who may or may not, but probably, has an emotional stranglehold on the vapid and possibly retarded Lovato.
In fact, according to Bayer, Lovato’s friends recommended she seek his council after a “bad mushroom trip.”
“We met after a bad mushroom trip. She asked for help and she had called her therapist and another person, both had said, ‘call Mike Bayer.’
That’s Mike Bayer’s account of it. I would almost bet my entire family’s life on the fact that that DID NOT happen.
First off, anyone who’s ever done mushrooms knows that’s not how it works.
If you had a bad mushroom trip (which you may have if you were Demi Lovato because you realize your entire life is a pyramid scheme concocted by your soulless mother who started selling your body at age five), you shake it off and learn from it and move on.
(Alternatively, if Lovato actually did mushrooms, she probably would have come to the rationalization that she should stop hiring people who tell her what to think, because those type of drugs actually MAKE you think.)
Either way, mushrooms were the culprit, is the official narrative.
Point being, when you come to your senses, you don’t call Mike Bayer, who is one of Dr. Phil’s buddies, meaning he’s a hack, and a fraud. He’s appeared on Dr. Phil’s show several times, billing himself as Coach Mike.
That’s the type of guy that mushrooms teach you to avoid.
If you have any respect for Dr. Phil, in any capacity, seriously lay down a bunch of thumb tacks on the floor and then jump off of your couch onto them with your bare feet, and send me a photo of your face experiencing pain, because I’ve had to endure a much duller pain, meaning Dr. Phil being on TV while I’m at the gym, for over a decade.
One moment versus twenty years. It’s not fair, but we’ll call it even.
Coach Mike, by the way, looks creepy as fuck.
Even if he didn’t look creepy, he would still be creepy, because only creepy guys become “Life Coaches” to young women or men.
Anyway, this entire mushroom narrative is propaganda, not far removed from the comedically overrated Reefer Madness, and the prescription drug lobby has been carrying it out since they became a lobby.
They used to tell you that people on pot jumped off of buildings. Now the general public is hooked on mood stabilizers and that type of shit begins to make sense because, they are literally braindead.
So, it worked.
Now, why did Demi Lovato invest financial capital into the rehab clinic where she received treatment?
If you haven’t figured this out yet, turn on Dr. Phil.
Mike Bayer owns the clinic.
It’s called CAST Centers, and there are two locations, one in West Hollywood, and one in Culver City.
I wonder if Demi Lovato, right now, decided to cash out her chips on the co-ownership of CAST, how many times Mike Bayer would ignore her call.
Anyway, prior to the recent Demi Lovato overdose (I feel bad for her honestly, whether or not she understands her immediate surroundings), she had overdosed before, and was treated at CAST Centers, a for-profit facility, where, I would presume, she met Coach Mike.
Now, how great is this facility? I remember hearing this story about Sean Connery and Robert Redford being drunk at a bar in Ireland, and the owner wanted to close it for the night, so they simply bought the bar and continued their night.
That story, I believe to be true.
Was Demi Lovato’s rehab stay equally thrilling? What would possess her to invest her own hard earned money into the facility?
I found the situation weird, and the questions vexxing.
So, let me pull up my old emails, because I contacted CAST Centers about the very issue of Demi Lovato co-owning her alma matter rehab facility right after the initial story came out.
They referred me to a Public Relations firm called Lifestyle, which employs people who everyone hates in real life, namely women with thin hair wearing thirteen layers of sheer clothing, and guys named Greg who talk about their man cave and you pretend to think it’s cool but you’re actually afraid of him knowing where you live.
These are the questions I asked the Lifestyles representative in writing:
- Demi Lovato according to some articles I read co-owns a CAST center she recently bought. Are each of them independently owned, are they franchised or how does it work? How many centers are there?
- CAST is an LLC, correct? Are there any plans to open it to the public? How many people share ownership in CAST?
- Do you have any stats on the success rate of CAST?
- What is the operational cost of being treated at CAST? And how does that relate to the billing cost?
- Are there any ethical implications in terms of turning a profit in this type of area, has anyone suggested that mental health/addiction issues would better be handled with a non-profit?
I got an evasive response from the Lifestyles representative in charge of this matter, which culminated in her telling me that they simply wouldn’t answer my questions, which, I would argue, is the entire point of her job, but here it goes, slightly consolidated for the sake of the readers:
Her name is Amy Smith, and she’s the Assistant Vice President.
At this point I have to admit that I was pretending to be a reporter for The Guardian, and Amy Smith most certainly knew I was bullshitting, although I don’t see how that is relevant to the blunt questions I put forth.
Here’s the exchange, after providing the specific questions I had asked:
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