Rising Disney starlet Demi Lovato will open up about the painful bullying that caused her to leave school a few years ago on Wednesday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Demi, who hit the Teen Queen Scene after her performance in the movie musical Camp Rock last Summer, was teased so unmercifully as a seventh grader she left school in favor of home-schooling.

“I never really understood why [I was being bullied] until looking back,” Demi says. “I had a different lifestyle then everyone else.”

“I want to help with bullying, because there are girls who can’t just up and home-school and focus on their career.”