Watch: How Alyson Stoner Navigated Kidnapping Plots, Stalkers as a Child StarAlyson Stoner and Demi Lovato's friendship wasn't always as carefree as summer camp. In their new memoir, Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything, released August 12, Alyson details what it was like being close with Demi during their time in Disney Channel's Camp Rock. "For several years, I felt suffocated under the weight of Demi's power and terrified of her PR team," the 32-year-old author wrote, "the extreme remarks from her fanbase, and the way mass media gave a fabricated identity a life of its own.