Cara Delevingne Speaks Out About Getting Sober After Alarming Photos: 'Sometimes You Need a Reality Check'

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Cara Delevingne, «If I was continuing to go down the road I was, I would either end up dead or, like, doing something really, really stupid.»As the cover star of 's April 2023 issue, the 30-year-old model and actress has opened up for the first time about getting sober after reaching a turning point in September 2022.

Fans may recall it was the month she sparked public concern after being photographed shoeless at a Los Angeles airport. At the time, she had returned from Burning Man and was snapped looking disheveled and riding in an SUV with her feet dangling out the window. «I hadn’t slept.

I was not okay,» she recalls to . «It’s heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, Okay, I don’t look well.» Adds Delevingne, «You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for.»Looking back, the star recalled reaching a low point while quarantining during the pandemic after her breakup from Ashley Benson. «I was alone, really alone,» she tells the magazine. «I just had a complete existential crisis.

All my sense of belonging, all my validation—my identity, everything—was so wrapped up in work. And when that was gone, I felt like I had no purpose.