Cara Delevingne Says Disheveled Paparazzi Photos Were Wake Up Call That Led To Sobriety

Cara Delevingne stated that she was shocked to see the unkempt paparazzi photographs of her at Los Angeles’ airport in September. It gave her a wake up call and inspired her to make the decision to get sober over the past four months.

This 30-year-old actress/model opened her doors to Vogue About her battle with drugs, she said that drug problems are often the result of being involved in entertainment. “magnified and exacerbated.”

“I hadn’t slept. I was not okay,” Delevingne commented on the photographs. “It’s heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, Okay, I don’t look well. You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for.”

“In a way, a lot of people have looked at my childhood or my family and thought, she’s spoiled, there’s nepotism, she grew up extremely privileged, which I did, don’t get me wrong,” Elle added. “But life wasn’t all that easy for other reasons.”

“I was happy as a kid for sure, but I think when I grew up, I looked back and realized, that’s not normal,” Continued the actress. “And then as a teenager, it just all came plummeting down. That’s also when I started drinking and partying. There was this need to escape and change my reality as I was hit with just huge questions: What am I doing here? Who am I trying to be?”

Supermodel says she used drugs and started to drink before she was even an infant.

“This was the beginning of mental health issues and inadvertent self-harm,” Delevingne shared that she received sleeping pills at 10 years old to help with her insomnia. Then at the age of 15, she suffered a breakdown, and was prescribed antidepressants to help her deal with that.

“There were so many times that I was encouraged to take this or be put on that,” Shared the star “[Now] I’m more of a naturalist, a purist in a sense, when it comes to medications.”

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In September came the paparazzi photographs. It was the reality she needed, and she decided to go into rehab.

“I’ve had interventions of a sort, but I wasn’t ready,” Delevingne stated. ” That’s the problem. If you’re not face-first on the floor and ready to get up again, you won’t. At that point, I really was.”

“I always thought that the work needs to be done when the times are bad, but actually the work needs to be done when they’re good,” Elle added. “The work needs to be done consistently. It’s never going to be fixed or fully healed but I’m okay with that, and that’s the difference.”

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