Cara Delevingne wants you to know she has struggled in life.
The actress-turned-model has been clean for over two years. She’s recently been discussing her health journey extensively, including the fact that she admitted to becoming drunk when she was eight years old.
She has been quite candid about her struggles with drugs and mental health.
In 2001, Delevingne was at her aunt’s wedding when she sneaked a drink and felt the impact of the alcohol, and she liked it. That was the gateway to the addiction problem that followed.
The paparazzi images of Cara Delevingne at an airport in California, wearing just socks, on her way to London from the Burning Man Festival was the “wake-up call” that she had to get straightened out.
She confessed that she was drunk that day.
Delevingne started modeling for Vogue Italia just two years after her first drink at her aunt’s, and she started partying seriously shortly after that. Barely a teen, she was on a destructive path.
Delevingne has been open and honest about her fight with addiction and her struggles to stay sober. Delevingne entered treatment at the end of 2022 and has since been making efforts to live a healthy lifestyle.
After a successful run as Sally Bowles in the London version of the musical “Cabaret,” Delevingne is enjoying where she is in her career and mental state. Cara said that her house fire earlier this year would still cause her to “reel” if she were still using, demonstrating the deep impact of getting sober.
She says some might argue that she doesn’t attend her substance abuse recovery meetings frequently enough, but she is doing what works for her, adding that everyone is unique.
The model/actress thought about how much her life had transformed since she decided to stop drinking, noting that she had previously believed that drugs and alcohol would help her deal, but instead, they just served to keep her despondent and extremely unhappy. Now she feels like she is in charge again, and nothing is able to control her.
The celebrity has reached a point where she can be in the company of people who are indulging in alcoholic beverages and yet keep it together.
Delevingne has made a significant move toward assisting others struggling with addiction and looking for a way out.
Along with her elder sisters Chloe and Poppy, Delevingne released an alcohol-free sparkling rosé in 2018 named Della Vite Zero.