Demi Lovato Hit With Backlash After Promoting Diet Culture By Appearing With ‘Dr. Pepper Zero’

After accusing a frozen yogurt shop of promoting “diet culture” for selling “sugar-free” options, singer Demi Lovato has been getting backlash online after photos surfaced of her appearing in front of a “Dr. Pepper Zero” step-and-repeat backdrop while speaking into a branded microphone.

“Demi Lovato is in hot water with fans over a recent photo of the star holding a Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar-branded microphone — just a month after the singer went to war with a frozen yogurt chain over its ‘triggering’ sugar-free offerings,” reported Page Six. “One critic on Twitter — who did not use Lovato’s preferred they/them pronouns after the performer recently came out as nonbinary — pointed out that Lovato ‘sure is ok with attacking diet culture unless the diet culture lines her pockets’ and encouraged their fans to ‘stop trying to defend an unhinged adult woman.'”