Cara Delevingne Speaks Candidly About Checking Into Rehab After ‘Heartbreaking’ Photos Emerged Online: ‘I Was Not Okay’

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Cara Delevingne opens up about her battle with drug and alcohol abuse in a candid new interview with Vogue. The supermodel, whose mother, Pandora, has spoken about her struggle with Bipolar disorder and heroin addiction, recalls seeing some worrying paparazzi photos of herself around September last year, which ultimately resulted in her checking into rehab.

The mag writes, “Delevingne describes those paparazzi photos (shared by the Daily Mail) as a source of overwhelming shame and embarrassment, and an urgent wake-up call to step away from the substances and the alcohol that had long seduced her with their offer of escape, and to confront deeper personal issues that she’d been running away from.” READ MORE: Orlando Bloom & Cara Delevingne Prepare For War In New Trailer For ‘Carnival Row’ Season 2 The “Carnival Row” actress recalls having just returned from the Burning Man festival at the time, saying she “hadn’t slept” and “was not okay.” Delevingne, who says she felt “invincible” on drugs, admits, “It’s heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, ‘Okay, I don’t look well,'” adding: “You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for.” After the worrying pap photos came out, a tight group of Delevingne’s friends rallied around her, and she ended up heading to rehab late last year.

Elsewhere in the candid interview, the model speaks about battling bouts of depression at different stages in her life, explaining how things got especially bad during the pandemic. READ MORE: Margot Robbie Shuts Down Rumours That She Was Crying Outside Cara Delevingne’s Home  She remembers, “In the beginning, I was living with people in