Health The drama of Cara Delevingne: the addictions that she has inherited from her mother and have transformed her physique
Health Cara Delevingne's environment: "We are all extremely worried"
Cara Delevingne (30) has revealed that she entered a
rehabilitation center
after seeing herself in some shocking images, last September at a Los Angeles airport, in which she appeared disoriented, disheveled and with apparent symptoms of having ingested toxic substances .
The British model and actress has assured in an interview published by Vogue
magazine
that she has reflected on her
mental health problems and her fight against addictions
after her erratic public appearances caused concern among her followers and those around her.
Delevingne, who is on the cover of the
magazine's April issue
, confesses in the interview that she wasn't "ready" to face her demons until she fell into a "bad place."
"I've had interventions of some kind, but I wasn't prepared. That's the problem," says the model, who also confesses that
"I hadn't seen a therapist in three years.
I just pushed everyone away, which made me realize how bad it was."
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In the interview, Delevingne does not avoid any issue about her mental health or her addictions and assures that she has been
sober for more than four months,
has returned to therapy after three years of absence and regularly attends meetings as part of a 12-step program to deal with his addiction.
After sweeping as a model, the British made the leap to the cinema where she has also triumphed, but some images captured at the Van Nuys airport in Los Angeles,
without shoes, spinning around on herself
and looking very dirty set
off alarm bells about her condition.
.
A few weeks after those photos, however, she appeared beaming at a Paris Fashion Week event for a collaboration honoring Karl Lagerfeld.
Had the headlines been exaggerated? His followers wondered.
Delevingne has not evaded the bulge and has assured that
these photos caused her a lot of shame
and made her move away from the drugs and alcohol that she has used for so long as an escape route to face deeper personal problems that she had been avoiding.
The model and actress explains that she was caught that day
after returning from the Burning Man festival.
"I hadn't slept and I wasn't well," she says.
"It's heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun
(...) "Sometimes you need to face reality so in a way I'm grateful for those photos."
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After the Californian airport episode, British tabloids compared her to her mother, Pandora, 63, who suffers from
bipolar disorder and has been addicted to heroin
.
The childhood of Delenvigne and her sisters was not easy because she was marked by the
continuous absences of her mother
, who was admitted to rehabilitation.
She for years she blamed him for her problems.
"I was mad at her, but it wasn't her fault... The way addiction took my mother from me was brutal, and it was brutal to her, too."
He remembers
his first experience with alcohol abuse when he was seven years old
, at a wedding.
At the age of 10, he was prescribed sleeping pills and diagnosed with dyspraxia, a disorder that affects movement and coordination.
"This was the start of my mental health issues
and unintentional self-harm," she recalls.
That's where his therapy sessions also began.
At 15, he suffered a nervous breakdown
and was prescribed antidepressants to help him cope with his profound sense of isolation.
"I hadn't discovered the fucking hole inside, the real eddy inside. And I still think there's a part of the diagnosis that's detrimental."
Now, she says, "I'm more of a naturalist, a purist in a way, when it comes to medication."
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