"Reading comments similar that decidedly affected my intelligence wellness and yet played into maine processing an eating upset astatine a precise young age," she shared. "My archetypal memories of trying to starve myself, I was 7 years old. A batch of it came from speechmaking those comments. My household had nary thought that this was going on. My ma had nary thought that I was seeing these things, that I was speechmaking these things, due to the fact that I was very, precise sneaky astir it." 

She added, "I was besides precise bully astatine hiding and throwing distant meals past saying that I ate them. And a batch of this happened portion I was astatine school, truthful determination was nary mode for my parents to cognize that I was restricting."

Madison, who is Demi Lovato's half-sister, recalled times she starved herself and endured "months of struggling with a binge-eating disorder."

Now, the Pink Elephant manager says she is astir 2 years into recovery. However, she feels it is simply a life-long process.

"I don't deliberation it's thing that volition ever beryllium wholly gone oregon it volition ever wholly beryllium fixed," she said. "It's thing that you person to proceed to enactment connected for the remainder of your life. It does get easier, of course, but it volition ever beryllium there."

Looking backmost connected moving with her Desperate Housewives co-stars portion receiving specified hate, Madison shared that she and Eva ne'er spoke retired the online comments together.

"We ne'er explicitly talked astir it, but she decidedly went retired of her mode to marque maine consciousness similar I was beauteous and similar I was special," Madison said. "And she made maine consciousness similar I was family. And if I ever did privation to spell to her with these things, I perfectly could have."

But Madison shared that she did not privation to code what was being said online. "I felt truthful ashamed that these comments were adjacent being written, I didn't adjacent privation to speech astir [it]," she recalled. "On the disconnected accidental they hadn't seen the comments, I didn't privation to beryllium the 1 to bring it up."

Despite feeling that mode then, Madison declared, "It's antithetic now." 

"I person learned to speech astir it due to the fact that I deliberation it's incredibly important for radical to cognize however atrocious cyberbullying tin beryllium and conscionable however the unthinkable is really happening today," she said. "And I deliberation it's truly important that radical are alert of that truthful they tin look retired for it and support this adjacent procreation of children."