Cara Delevingne Gets Vulnerable About Her Sobriety
Cara Delevingne opened up about her sobriety at age 30 in an interview with Vogue.
The chaos and sobriety troubles of her 20s came to a head after a difficult 30th birthday in Ibiza, followed by a trip to Burning Man. She checked herself into rehab last year after Burning Man and committed to a 12-step program. Delevingne is now proudly four months sober.
She claims she used alcohol and other substances as a form of escape from confronting deeper issues that she had been running away from.
Her childhood was not easy, as her mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and struggled with alcoholism. She used to blame her mother for her shortcomings but came to understand her more as she got older. She stated, “I just needed someone to be angry at, and I was angry at her, but it wasn’t her fault….The way that addiction took my mother from me was brutal, and it was brutal for her too.”
The public saw her looking disheveled and unwell up close and personal after paparazzi spotted her at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles after her 30th birthday.
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Delevingne describes the paparazzi photos as a wake-up call because she saw how she really looked. “It’s heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, Okay, I don’t look well,” she stated.
Delevingne started seeing her current girlfriend, Leah Mason, a musician who goes by Minke, a little over a year ago. Mason has helped her on her road to recovery. “She’s the type of person who has boundaries, and there came a point with me when she wasn’t going to have it much longer, and it was a blessing in disguise,” she stated.
The healing process is not linear. She includes meditation and movement in her daily routine as well as weekly therapy sessions. “It doesn’t happen overnight….Of course I want things to be instant—I think this generation especially, we want things to happen quickly—but I’ve had to dig deeper,” she stated.
Hopefully, Delevingne can continue her road to recovery with the help of her loving family and friends.
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