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Hollywood star Cara Delevigne, known for her role in the movie Suicide Squad, claimed in a recent interview that she got drunk for the first time at the age of eight.
Knewz.com has learned that this was the start of a long journey of substance abuse which she used as a coping mechanism.
Speaking to a reporter, she recalled how she “got drunk that day.”
“I was eight, what a crazy age to get drunk.”
She also related to a fire that razed her Los Angeles home on March 15, 2024, while she was in London for work.
“It sucks but everyone was safe and, like anything, if I’d not been sober I would still be reeling over that.”
According to an interview with her father Charles, the house burned following an issue with overhead power cables and left the 31-year-old model devastated. “She had everything in her house—her whole life.”
“She built it. She made it,” he said.
According to Cara, however, she could have fared much worse following the news of the fire.
“I would still affect me really deeply. Of course, it affected me, it’s super sad.”
“It never won’t be. But I don’t use it as a tool to keep myself sad,” she said, referring to the loss of her house.
Cara went to speak about her social habits, saying:
“I used to think drugs and alcohol helped me cope … but they didn’t, they kept me sad and super depressed. I feel like I’ve got my power back and I’m not being controlled by other things.”
Although committed to her journey of recovery and abstinence, she claims that people drinking around her do not bother her and that she still attends parties and festivals.
She recalled a recent experience at London’s Glastonbury Festival that she attended sober.
“It smelt bad, my feet hurt and I didn’t stay up so late, but it was just as much fun. I never want my life to change in that way.”
She also referred to another such party that she attended—presumably not sober.
The paparazzi caught wind of her presence at the annual Burning Man festival in Mexico and the ensuing photos disseminated in the press made her rethink life in general.
“Listen, I signed up for this, this is my job, it’s what I do.”
“But without that would I be sober now? I would have never been Sally Bowles in the West End, I’m super proud of that,” she said of her role in a British production.
She went on to note that her journey to sobriety has not been an easy one.
“People want my story to be this after-school special where I just say, ‘Oh look, I was an addict, and now I'm sober and that's it.’ And it's not as simple as that. It doesn't happen overnight.”
“Of course I want things to be instant — I think this generation especially, we want things to happen quickly — but I've had to dig deeper,” she said in the interview first published by Britain’s The Times.
