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Last September, the video recorded by the paparazzi at Van Nuys airport in Los Angeles in which he seemed to be in a daze went around the world. Images that had fans worried and alerted friends and family (including Margot Robbie) to the alarming state of his mental health and the out-of-control level of his addictions. Today Cara Delevingne speaks for the first time about the dark spiral in which she had fallen and of the path of rehab “that saved her” from an already written end.
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“Every single story is important and this is mine. We are all human. Of course we will fall and make mistakes. We will go through some really tough things in life but that is how we will get back up. We can learn and heal. Troubled times are not final. Difficult circumstances must not hold us back or define us »: thus begins the Instagram post with which Cara Delevingne presents her interview with American Vogue in which for the first time he talks about his drug problem and the rehabilitation process undertaken between December and January to get out of it. “There is hope. Always have hope. Right here, I am grateful, proud and ready for whatever is to come. Remember that it’s never too late to change the direction of your story. To anyone out there who is still struggling, don’t give up, you are not alone », the words that moved her followers and friends including Vanessa Hudgens, Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid and girlfriend Minke.
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Today Cara happily admits that she has been sober for four months and that he had taken his life back into his hands as he had entered a tunnel with no way out. “All I knew was that if I continued down the path I was down, I was either going to die or I was going to do something really, really stupid. And I think it was really scary», explained the English model, «there is a feeling of being invincible when I use drugs. I put myself in danger in those moments because I don’t care about my life (…) I used to climb up anything and jump off things, it felt wild. It’s a scary thing for the people around you who love you.”
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The only way forward was rehab, a difficult journey in which he has faced his demons and the origin of his addictions, starting from the first excess of alcohol during a marriage when he was only seven years old to the substance abuse of his mother. “The treatment was the best. It was something I was always really afraid of (…) community made a big difference », she declared, « the opposite of addiction is connection ».
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As reported by Page Six, Cara was hospitalized for a month, from mid-December to mid-January, at Cirque Lodge in Utah, a rehabilitation center that in the past has helped several celebs to face their frailties including Lindsay Lohan, Eva Mendes, Mary-Kate Olsen, Demi Moore, Kirsten Dunst, Chris Klein and Richie Sambora. The facility that “treats drug and alcohol addiction, as well as emotional and mental health issues” offers its guests an art therapy room, a recording studio, a gym, a hair salon and a massage space, as well as a climbing center and a horse arena for hippotherapy and can cost “$20,000 to $50,000 for a month’s stay.”
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“You can’t run away from the things that happen in your life, and that was all I wanted to do: just pretend they didn’t exist. Because it would be easier, right? No, it’s worse because they will catch up with you. It always happens. I didn’t want to face anything », explained the 30-year-old, concluding her story with a message of hope, «your life can change if you give yourself the opportunity to really be who you are ».
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