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Cara Delevingne Opens Up About Journey To Sobriety

By Oke Odunmorayo

10 March 2023   |   9:20 am

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When airport pictures of Cara Delevingne looking disarrayed captured by the paparazzi appeared on the internet, many speculations were made about her wellbeing and the possibility of her abusing drugs. There were also reports of her loved ones trying to get her help but no one could truly specify what the problem was. Cara Delevingne,…

English model Cara Delevingne arrives for the 2019 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2019, in New York. – The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. The Gala’s 2019 theme is “Camp: Notes on Fashion” inspired by Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on Camp”. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

When airport pictures of Cara Delevingne looking disarrayed captured by the paparazzi appeared on the internet, many speculations were made about her wellbeing and the possibility of her abusing drugs. There were also reports of her loved ones trying to get her help but no one could truly specify what the problem was.

Cara Delevingne, 30 year old model and actress, opened up about her journey to sobriety in an exclusive interview with Vogue.

Cara shared that she is now over 4 months sober – a positive decision she made from the embarrassment she felt after seeing the disturbing pictures that were taken of her at the airport at Los Angeles.

“It’s heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, ‘OK, I don’t look well,'” she said. “You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for.”

Cara defined the moment as a wake up call for her: “You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for.”

She also stated that she knew she had to change anyways “because the way that I was living was not sustainable.”

Cara shared her struggle with alcohol, mental health, insomnia, dyspraxia and how she’d had people that staged “interventions of a sort” but she resisted.

“This process obviously has its ups and downs, but I’ve started realizing so much,” she said. “People want my story to be this after-school special where I just say, ‘Oh look, I was an addict, and now I’m sober and that’s it.’ And it’s not as simple as that. It doesn’t happen overnight. … Of course I want things to be instant — I think this generation especially, we want things to happen quickly — but I’ve had to dig deeper.”