Cara Delevingne Is Happy To Be Sober, Says Alcohol And Drugs Made Her Depressed

In 2022, Cara Delevingne became the center of drug-use rumors after she was spotted acting "erratically" in public. Videos captured the model wearing socks, messy hair, a baggy shirt, and form-fitting pants. She had just attended Burning Man.

Now, Delevingne is coming forward about her past drug habit and how she used to believe substances helped her cope when they really made her "sad and super depressed."

Delevingne hasn't had it easy. On March 15, her $7 million home caught on fire. Her two cats were saved by the firefighters. Even still, she refused to go back to her old habits. “Of course it affected me, it’s super sad,” she said of her ravaged house. “It never won’t be. But I don’t use it as a tool to keep myself sad.”

The Paper Towns star has been sober for two years. The model had a less-than-glamorous upbringing and spent most of her childhood looking after her heroin-addicted mother, Pandora. Alcohol was introduced to her when she was only 8. “I got drunk that day, I was eight,” she told The Times. “What a crazy age to get drunk.”

“I woke up in my granny’s house in my bedroom with a hangover in a bridesmaid’s dress.”

At 10, the Suicide Squad actress took to sleeping pills to aid her insomnia. This marked the beginning of her mental health issues and self-harm. She added, “I used to think drugs and alcohol helped me cope. But they didn’t. They kept me sad and super depressed.”

Delevingne said her wake-up call was the photographs taken of her after the Burning Man Festival. “It was a stupid decision to go straight from a festival to work,” she said. “I should have waited a day. But it was going to happen to me anyway, there were plenty of photos out there of me looking wasted. Listen, I signed up for this, this is my job, it’s what I do. But without that, would I be sober now?”

The model says she's now in control and is grateful for Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12-step program. “I feel like I’ve got my power back, and I’m not being controlled by other things,” she said.

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