It's the calm after a hell of a storm for Cara Delevingne. It must be said that since her first bake, at the age of seven, at a family wedding, and her successive depressive episodes, since she was 15, or her complicated coming out, the British model and actress has not been spared.



In addition to the breakup with Ashley Benson that triggered a "total existential crisis", as she explains in Vogue magazine, the actress of The Hidden Face of Margo must learn to live with the maternal spectre. His mother Pandora has indeed experienced bipolar disorder and heroin addiction problems...

'A sign of major stress'

While fans have been worried for several months, Cara Delevingne waited to spend some time in rehab before speaking. Sober since September, she can tell the truth, especially about her chaotic passage at the Met Gala last year. While filming her documentary series Planet Sex, she learned of the death of her grandmother. Two weeks later, she went to the Met Gala in New York completely "at the end of her rope." The star drowned out her grief that night, to the point of not remembering the evening.

"When I heard of her death, I had to deal with a lot of things, because I hadn't seen her since Christmas the year before. I was really trying to put everything I had into my work, and every night when I came home from filming, I would sit alone and cry. When I arrived at the Met Ball two weeks later, I was completely exhausted," she said. "I went to the party, and then I don't remember anything. I was like, "No, but what are you doing here?" The next day, I had to go to my grandmother's funeral. It was horrible. »

It was topless, with gold paint and simple nipple covers that the star presented herself at the annual fashion event. She explains that the psoriasis patches visible on her skin were "a sign of major stress" and proof that her body "couldn't take it anymore." When she turned 30 in August, Cara Delevingne was well aware that her lifestyle was not "sustainable". Nevertheless, she chose to celebrate the event as "a funeral of my previous life", "because it was the last time", she believed, so by getting lost in artificial paradises. What she thought was one last shot actually plunged her deeper into addiction, until the Burning Man festival, where she "completely let go".

End of self-destruction?

It is also the photos and videos of her taken by the paparazzi on the return of this festival that were the salutary electroshock. Seeing himself completely erratic, in socks, in front of the airport and almost unable to control his movements made him "ashamed". "You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way, I'm grateful for those images," she explains in Vogue.

Cara Delevingne ended up going into rehab last September. If she has been sober since, she does not consider herself cured. "People want my story to be worthy of a teen show where I just say, 'Oh, look, I was hooked, and now I'm sober, and that's it.' And it's not as simple as that. It doesn't happen overnight," she concludes.

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