Cara Delevingne has candidly opened up about her sobriety.
The supermodel checked into rehab last year, after photos and videos of her displaying erratic behaviour at a Los Angeles airport went viral.
The 30-year-old then committed to a 12-step program, and has remained sober since.
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In a new interview with ELLE UK, Cara revealed quitting alcohol has been “worth every second”.
She told the publication: “It hasn’t [been easy], but there have never been moments when I’m like, ‘This isn’t worth it.’ It’s been worth every second. I just don’t know what it would take for me to give it up. I am stable. I’m calmer.”
Cara also admitted she felt like a weight had been lifted after she opened up about her struggles earlier this year.
She said: “For a long time, I felt like I was hiding a lot from people who looked up to me. I finally feel as though I can be free and myself, fully.”
In an interview with Vogue back in April, Cara admitted the viral videos and photos of her gave her an urgent wake-up call.
She explained that she had just returned from Burning Man when the photos were taken, adding: “I hadn’t slept. I was not okay. 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… If I was continuing to go down the road I was, I would either end up dead or, like, doing something really, really stupid.”
Cara admitted she “was alone, really alone” during the Covid-19 pandemic and during this time, she became addicted to various undisclosed substances.
She said: “I just had a complete existential crisis. All my sense of belonging, all my validation—my identity, everything—was so wrapped up in work. And when that was gone, I felt like I had no purpose. I just wasn’t worth anything without work, and that was scary.”
“Instead of taking the time to really learn something new or do something new, I got very wrapped up in misery, wallowing, and partying. It was a really sad time.”
Cara continued: “From September, I just needed support. I needed to start reaching out. And my old friends I’ve known since I was 13, they all came over and we started crying. They looked at me and said, ‘You deserve a chance to have joy.’”
After checking into rehab, the model committed to a 12-step program, and has remained sober since.
She told the magazine: “This process obviously has its ups and downs, but I’ve started realizing so much. 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.”
