Dove Cameron opened up about navigating complicated dynamics in her past romantic relationships.
“I also think some of my previous relationships were just bad matches,” Cameron, 30, said on the Wednesday, Feb. 4, episode. Alex Cooper‘s “call her father” podcast “Some of them were traumatic attachments and I chose to continue on that path and not see all the red flags. And they were really terrible.”
Before finding The One with promised Damian DavidCameron had high-profile relationships Ryan McCartan i Thomas Doherty. While Cameron didn’t reveal specific details about her exes, she did talk about her experiences in past relationships.
“Sometimes I look back and blame myself for staying in those relationships,” she reflected. “Sometimes I look back with a lot of empathy and say, ‘I couldn’t have known better.’ Sometimes my empathy even extends far enough to say they couldn’t have known better. But then I dial it back.”
Dove Cameron’s love life serves as inspiration for her debut album Alchemical: Volume 1, and her ex Thomas Doherty appears to be the subject of one of her songs. “‘Sand’ is about a boy I loved very much, who I really thought I would spend my life with, and the (…)
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Dove Cameron took a 2-year dating sabbatical
After going through a breakup, Dove Cameron went through “huge episodes of alone time” that she referred to as a “two-year dating sabbatical.”
“I just disappeared off the face of the planet. There was a time when I was like, ‘Wow, I’m broke.’ I don’t want anyone,” he recalled. “Because I was so disturbed. I was very upset about the places I had gotten to and what I had, who I had chosen to love and who I loved.”
Cameron added that during this period of solitude, she focused on being the best version of herself.
“I spent some time alone and I was finally ready to date someone,” she said. “And when I say a while, it was like two years. I spent like two and a half years not only not going out or seeing anybody, but really working on my shit because it felt good to be alone.”
Dove Cameron had a ‘celibacy era’
Before meeting Damiano David, Dove Cameron revealed she was celibate.
“That was the era of celibacy, where I said, ‘Don’t touch me.’ don’t look at me Don’t come near me,” he said. “I’m not leaving the house. I was like a dark night of the soul for a year.”
Cameron decided to be open to the idea of dating just a week before hooking up with the Maneskin singer.
“I literally texted my friends. I was like, ‘I think I’m ready to go out.'” A week later, he said, “Nice to meet you.”
Dove Cameron ignored an ex’s ‘red flags’
Dove Cameron reflected on not seeing the “red flags” in an ex because she was blinded by love.
“I was looking at it as some kind of proof that I was broken, right? Whereas I can’t choose love. I can’t. I’m not worthy of real love,” he said. “And I’m always going to choose someone who’s going to hurt me, right? That was my narrative. And I know there’s a lot of young women’s narrative, women’s narratives, you know, people’s narrative is that I’m too broken not only to be loved, but to be accepted.”
Cameron admitted he wouldn’t realize what “is going on until it’s too late”.
Dove Cameron experienced a “very scary” moment with an ex
Dove Cameron explained how a specific terrifying moment with an ex led to their breakup.
“It came to a very, very, non-physical, but very, very, very, very scary moment where I said, ‘I’m going to document this.’ I’m calling my mom right now. I call all my friends,” she stated. “And it was, but it was something, it took me, it took me until I was like, ‘Okay, wait, this is not love.'”
Cameron shared that her “threshold was crazy high” for this person because she was “in love.”
“It’s such a strange thing to try to explain to people who have never been in that position. I loved this person. I was in love,” she explained. “And it’s hard to conceptualize, people who say, ‘But how can you love someone who does these things to you?’ And, yes, I would say that now, from a sane and sane perspective, I would agree with that.”