'I was not OK': Cara Delevingne says she 'had a wake-up call' after 'heartbreaking' airport photos went viral
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Cara Delevingne has appealed to people to seek help when they find themselves dealing with drug abuse. The model spoke to a leading fashion magazine and shared that she had a wake-up call after photos of her went viral last year. The artist explained that her erratic behavior was rooted in the pandemic and her 30th birthday last year. "I hadn't slept. I was not okay. It's heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, okay, I don't look well. You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for."
She had a huge party going on celebrating her milestone birthday with an elaborate Alice in Wonderland-themed event. However, Delevingne was going through a turmoil within. "I always kind of knew that things were going to have to be different in my 30s because the way that I was living was not sustainable," she said. "I told myself, I should be having such a good time. I've got all my friends here. I need to be enjoying this," she said.
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'I was fighting it so much'
The ‘Life in a Year’ star said, "The house I was staying in had a tower and I would just kind of lock myself in it instead. I barely left the room. There was this need for change, but I was fighting it so much. I was welcoming in this new time but I was also grieving. It was like a funeral for my previous life, a goodbye to an era. And so I decided I was going to party as hard as I could because this was the end," she said, according to Vogue.
'But I've had to dig deeper'
Cara Delevingne took a wise decision to enter into a rehab, a 12-step program soon. "This process obviously has its ups and downs, but I've started realizing so much," the 'Carnival Row' alum said. "People want my story to be this after-school special where I just say, 'Oh look, I was an addict and now I'm sober and that's it.' And it's not as simple as that. 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."