Cara Delevingne checked into rehab after ‘heartbreaking’ footage of her erratic behavior

Cara Delevingne has reflected on her mental health and her battle with addiction after raising concerns over a series of erratic incidents last year.

The 30-year-old model worried fans when she made several troublesome appearances in public and has now revealed that she secretly checked herself into rehab after “heartbreaking” images woke her up.

speaking to Fashion magazine as its April cover star, she confessed she hadn’t been “ready” to face her demons before, but after finding herself in a “bad place” she realized she needed to prioritize her recovery.

She explained: ‘I’ve had interventions of some sort, but I wasn’t ready. That’s the problem.

‘If you’re not face down on the ground and ready to get up again, you won’t. At that point, I was really… I hadn’t seen a therapist in three years. I just pushed everyone away, which made me realize how bad it was.

Cara continued: “I’ve always thought that work has to be done when times are bad, but really, work has to be done when times are good.”

‘The work has to be done consistently. It will never be fully fixed or cured, but I’m okay with it, and that’s the difference.

Cara’s well-being had been at the forefront of her friends and family’s concerns for the past year after she was seen behaving erratically on several occasions.

The model explained that she had been lying to herself about her health and it wasn’t until she saw herself in the photographs that she realized she needed help.

I had not slept. It wasn’t right,’ she explained. “It’s heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, well, I don’t look good.”

“You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those photos were something to be thankful for.”

Through her work in therapy, Cara realized that she needed to stop chasing the idea of ​​a “quick fix” for healing and committed to following the 12-step program.

She explained: “Before, I was always interested in the quick fix of healing, going on a week-long retreat or a trauma course, for example, and that helped for a minute, but it never got to the heart of the matter.” the deepest things.

“This time I realized that the 12-step treatment was for the best, and it was about not being ashamed of it. The community made a huge difference. The opposite of addiction is connection, and I really found it in 12 steps.’

It comes after Cara revealed that she will “take some time to heal” and enjoy the next chapter of her life after “things just clicked” with her 30th birthday.

Now that 2023 is in full swing, Cara says she’s looking to the future with a fresher perspective and looking to be “kinder” to herself after doing “so much for other people’s approval and love.”

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, he admitted he wondered, ‘Why? That doesn’t matter and it’s not going to make you love yourself more. He just doesn’t.

Learning from her life experience and coming of age at 30, she is now “taking time to heal and focus on herself and what I want to do.”

She added: ‘What I really want to do, not for other people’s sake but for my own sake. Is really nice.

She noticed a lot ‘clicked’ with her landmark birthday in August of last year, and her priorities changed as she became ‘gentler’ and kinder to herself.

She explained: ‘I think after I turned 30, there were a lot of things that clicked.

“I think my 20s were brilliant, but there were a lot of different things that I wanted to focus on.

“I think there was a part of me that still felt insecure in my teenage years and questioning and a little doubt all the time.

‘(But) is that real, that women are in their prime at 30? I just don’t care anymore.

“I’m a lot gentler to myself and kinder to myself and I think something has changed this year for sure.”

Before her 30th birthday, Cara revealed that she was looking forward to reaching the key age, though she admitted that that might have changed when she actually got there.

She said: ‘Getting old is so nice. I’m very excited, but call me that day and see how I am, I’ll probably cry.’

Vogue’s April 2023 issue will be available on newsstands nationwide on March 21.