As her two-year sober anniversary approaches, Cara Delevingne is getting candid about her past experiences with addiction. In a wide-ranging interview with the U.K.
’s Sunday Times , the British actor and model recalled consuming alcohol at a startlingly early age, when she was a bridesmaid in her aunt’s wedding. “You know I got drunk that day,” she explained. “I was 8, what a crazy age to get drunk.
” Delevingne went public about her recovery last year, acknowledging that she’d checked into rehab in late 2022 and had been attending Alcoholics Anonymous and its 12-step program since. “The community made a huge difference,” she told Vogue in April 2023. “The opposite of addiction is connection, and I really found that in 12-step.
” In her Sunday Times interview, Delevingne said it was the paparazzi photos that showed her at a California airport in her socks while en route to London from the Burning Man Festival that served as her wake-up call. “It was a stupid decision to go straight from a festival to work,” she explained. “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?” These days, Delevingne is on a professional high, having just wrapped a well-received run in the London production of the musical “Cabaret,” in which she starred as Sally Bowles.
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