Cara Delevingne To be frank Her long journey of sobriety, And how young she was when she started drinking.
The 31-year-old supermodel and actress recently The Sunday Times, Then I remembered getting drunk at my aunt’s wedding in 2001.
“I was drunk that day,” Delevingne recalls. “I was eight years old, which is a weird age to be drunk.”
“I woke up hungover, in a bridesmaid’s dress, in my grandmother’s bedroom.” Carnival Row “I went around smashing champagne glasses with nails,” the star said, explaining that he ended up getting drunk at the wedding.
Reflecting on her own addiction, Delevingne said she struggled with fame and the anxiety and scrutiny that came with it, which led to her substance abuse problem spiraling out of control.
“I thought drugs and alcohol would help me,” she said, “but they didn’t. They just made me sad and depressed.”
But now that she’s quit drinking and has been sober for several years, Delevingne says, “I feel like I’ve got my power back. I feel like other things no longer control me. I feel like I’m finally free.”
“I like AA meetings and I go when I can. Some people would say I don’t go often,” she added, “but I do it my way and it works for me. It’s different for everyone. Some people can go hundreds of times and it doesn’t work. Some people go once and then leave. Some people go when they don’t need to.”
Delevingne first spoke about her struggle with drug addiction trendApril 2023 issueIn it, she spoke about being sober for the first time since hitting a turning point in September 2022.
That month, the model sparked public interest when she was photographed shoeless at Los Angeles airport. At the time, she had just returned from Burning Man, where she was photographed getting into an SUV with messy hair and her legs dangling out the window.
“I couldn’t sleep. I wasn’t OK,” she said. I remembered trend 2023“It hurts my heart because I thought I was having fun and then at a certain point it was like, ‘Okay, this doesn’t look good.'”
Delevingne will enter rehab in September 2022. Then, start a 12-step program It helped her stay sober.
In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Delevingne said Celebrating his second anniversary with his girlfriend Minke — He now attends music festivals sober, and says the experience is different, but still great.
“It was smelly, my feet hurt, I couldn’t stay up late, but it was fun,” she said of her time at Glastonbury Festival in late June. “I wouldn’t want my life to be like that again.”
February 2023, Delevingne spoke to ET about turning 30.and explained how excited she is to enter a new chapter in her life.
“I think a lot of things fell into place once I hit 30. I think my 20s were amazing, but there were a lot of other things I wanted to focus on,” Delevingne said. “I feel like I wasn’t as confident as I was in my teens, I was always questioning myself and I was a little bit insecure.”
“[But] “Is it really true that women are at their peak in their 30s? I don’t care about that anymore,” she said. “I’m a lot kinder and gentler to myself and I think something has definitely changed this year.”
Delevingne explained that in her 20s, she “strived so hard for other people’s approval and love,” but she would ask herself, “Why? It’s not important, it’s not going to make me love myself more. It’s never going to happen.”
Now in her 30s and with the blessing of experience and emotional maturity, Delevingne said she is taking time to “heal and focus on myself and what I want to do.”
“I Really “I want to do it for myself, not for other people,” she added. “It’s a really beautiful thing.”
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