Coming up on her second sobriety anniversary, Cara Delevingne is opening up about her prior struggles with addiction. The British actor and model remembers drinking alcohol at an astonishingly young age—when she was a bridesmaid in her aunt’s wedding—in a comprehensive conversation with the Sunday Times of the United Kingdom. “You know I got drunk that day,” she said. “I was 8, what a crazy age to get drunk.”
Last year, Delevingne opened up about her rehabilitation. She revealed that she had entered a rehab facility in late 2022 and had since been following Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and its 12-step approach. “The community made a huge difference” she stated to Vogue in April 2023. “The opposite of addiction is connection, and I really found that in 12-step.”
Delevingne stated in an interview with the Sunday Times that her awakening came from the paparazzi shots that revealed her travelling from the Burning Man Festival to London while she was at a terminal in California wearing just her socks. “It was a stupid decision to go straight from a festival to work,” she elaborated. “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?”
Delevingne recently concluded an appreciated run in the London production of the musical “Cabaret,” where she featured as Sally Bowles, and is currently experiencing a career-peak. And after a power outage destroyed her Los Angeles home earlier this year, she found herself extremely appreciative of her sobriety. She told the Sunday Times, “If I’d not been sober I would still be reeling over that. It would still affect me really deeply.”