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Cara Delevingne was four months sober when she talked to fashion magazine in January 2023 for its April cover story. The model noted her change in part thanks to paparazzi was pictured shortly after her 30th birthday in September when she “looked tired and miserable at Van Nuys Airport” after returning to Los Angeles from Burning Man. “I didn’t sleep. I wasn’t fine,” she said fashion magazine. “It hurt because I thought I was having fun, but at some point I was like, Okay, I don’t look well. … You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those photos are something to be grateful for.”
The model revealed that she’s had “some interventions, but I’m not ready” to stay sober. “That’s the point. If you’re not facing the floor directly and are ready to get up again, then you won’t,” she said. The photos at the airport were the impetus for her to quietly check in. rehab in late 2022. “I haven’t seen a therapist in three years,” she said. “I just pushed people away, which made me realize I was in such a bad place. I always think that work should be done when the times are bad, but actually, work needs to be done when it is good.”
“The work needs to be done consistently. It will never be fully repaired or healed, but I’m fine with that, and that’s the difference,” she added. In the interview, Cara talked about how her drug problem started when she was young. “Certainly I was happy as a kid, but I think growing up, I look back and realize, That’s not normal,‘ Cara said, talking about growing up as the daughter of her father who was a real estate developer and mother who was a socialite and how there was always some “emotional turmoil” in her life. her life. “And then, as a teenager, it all went downhill. That’s when I started drinking and partying.”
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates the problems, especially the isolation Cara feels after she and her girlfriend at the time Ashley Benson split in April 2020. Cara was going through a “complete existential crisis” as her identity at the time was “so caught up in the act.” job. And when that disappeared, I felt like I had no purpose at all.” Cara fell back into her old habits. With her grandmother’s death in 2022, things took a turn for the worse. At the 2022 Met Gala, she said: “I went and the power went out afterwards. “It was like, What am I doing? The next day, I had to go to my grandmother’s funeral. Awful.”
Cara shared that she was sober after committing to the 12-step program; In the past, she was always looking for a “quick cure”, which never stopped. “This time, I realized that the 12-step treatment was for the best and I don’t feel ashamed about it,” she said. fashion magazine. “Community has made a huge difference. The opposite of addiction is connection and I actually found that in 12 steps.”
Cara said that in addition to the 12-step sessions, she also has weekly therapy sessions, a steady diet (Three meals a day), yoga and meditation twice daily. “The process obviously had its ups and downs, but I started to realize a lot of things,” Cara said. “People want my story to be special after school, where I just have to say, ‘Oh look, I used to be an addict, and now I’m sober, that’s it.’ And it’s not that simple. It doesn’t happen overnight.”
Vogue April 2023 is available on newsstands nationwide from March 21.
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