IT is almost two years since Cara Delevingne was seen stumbling around an LA airport in dirty socks. She was on her way back to London from Nevada’s Burning Man festival when she was spotted shoeless, jittery and repeatedly dropping her mobile phone . It was the latest in a long line of shocking incidents , from fumbling with a suspicious package outside her front door to numerous boozy exploits at home and abroad.
But it was those images of a lost young woman deep in the grips of addiction at the airport that caused the feisty supermodel to finally accept she needed help. And she has been sober pretty much ever since. This weekend Cara revealed the full extent of her former wild ways — which started when she was just EIGHT and got sozzled at her aunt’s 2001 wedding.
“You know I got drunk that day,” she said in an interview with the Sunday Times Style magazine. “I was eight — 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.
“I’d gone around nailing glasses of champagne.” But Cara, 31, claims she’s “got her power back” after the disturbing airport images of her looking dishevelled went viral. “It’s heartbreaking, because I thought I was having fun,” she says.
“But at some point it was like, ‘Okay, I don’t look well’. “Sometimes you do need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for. I was not okay .
. . if I was continuing .
