Cara Delevingne has taken a step forward and has decided to admit what is perhaps the biggest problem in her life: her drug abuse. The British model assumes that she is not well, but that she has taken steps to fight her addiction and recover before it is too late.
The British actress has given an extensive interview to Vogue magazine in which she confesses that the pandemic, and not assimilating too well what turning 30 means for someone in her professional line were the triggers for her to sink into a spiral of destruction.
What’s more, the model admits that her controversial images during the Burning Man festival, in the Nevada desert (USA), where she spent several days doing crazy things, barely eating and not washing, and her subsequent erratic behavior in a Californian airport; they were “the wake-up call” she needed to admit that she had a problem.
Such was the shock of seeing the images that he even locked himself in his home for several days, realizing that he needed urgent help.
“There’s an element of invincibility when I’m high,” she confesses, “I put myself in danger at those times because I don’t care about my life. She was covered in unexplained bruises. I would climb anything, I would jump and that… I felt totally feral. It’s very scary for the people around you who love you.”
Family and friends who were quick to come to his side and offer their unwavering support: his mother and sisters, Chloe and Poppy Delevingne; and her closest friends, such as actresses Margot Robbie, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sienna Miller or designer Stella McCartney.
“My friends have been my support,” he insists. They came and told me: “You deserve a chance to be happy.” An opportunity that seems to have come at the right time, because Cara herself admits that she has experienced the odd intervention in the past, but she was not prepared to detoxify: “If you are not prepared to fall face down on the ground and get up, you will not you can. Now I am.”
“Every story is important, and this is mine. We are all human. Of course we fall and make mistakes. We go through very hard things in life, but it is the way we get up that we can learn and heal,” he says Face in his publication, giving a message of hope: “Bad times are not final. Difficult circumstances have to hold us back or define us. There is hope, always hope,” he insists.
The model feels grateful to have been able to reach this moment. “I am proud and prepared for everything that is to come; remember that it is never too late to change the direction of your story,” she assures, before reiterating that “for anyone out there who is still having a hard time, don’t give up. You are not only”.
Also his partner of a year, the singer Minke (real name, Leah Mason), whom he met as a teenager – has stood by him in his toughest moments: “He’s the type of person who has limits, and It got to a point where I wasn’t going to tolerate it much anymore, it was actually a blessing,” says the model, adding that: “It’s the first time I feel like I’m in a relationship and not trying to rescue someone.”