Cara Delevingne reveals childhood struggles with addiction

Cara Delevingne was addicted to alcohol and drugs. The model and actress openly discusses her experiences. For the first time, she admitted that she got drunk at the age of 8.

Many people certainly associate Cara Delevingne with modelling, but the British-born star has also successfully continued her career in the world of film for several years. She starred in "Suicide Squad," "Paper Towns," and recently in the series "Only Murders in the Building," "Carnival Row," and "American Horror Story: Delicate." In September 2022, disturbing photos of the 30-year-old intoxicated appeared in the media. For Delevingne, it was a "reality check." Shortly afterward, she entered rehab. Today, she openly talks about her addiction.

Cara Delevingne described her struggles with alcohol and drug addiction in a recent interview with the "Sunday Times." She revealed that she got drunk at the age of 8. Who can imagine such a thing? Brit explained that it happened in 2001 at her aunt's party. "I got drunk that day," she said. "I was eight; what a crazy age to get drunk," she added.

"I used to think drugs and alcohol helped me cope … but they didn’t, they kept me sad and super depressed. I feel like I’ve got my power back and I’m not being controlled by other things," Delevingne said.

The wake-up call came in 2022 when photos of the intoxicated, strangely behaving star at Los Angeles Airport began circulating online. She was walking without shoes, in dirty socks, with dishevelled hair, a cigarette in her mouth, and bending in various directions. "Can someone check on Cara, please?" fans wrote on Twitter. "It's heartbreaking," Cara recalled. "I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, 'OK, 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," she said shortly after their publication. That’s when she decided to go to rehab.

In the new interview, she adds, "Listen, I signed up for this, this is my job, it’s what I do. But without that would I be sober now? I would have never been Sally Bowles in the West End, I’m super proud of that."