Cara Delevingne has revealed she sold drugs as a teenager before she spiralled into addiction.
The model, 33, admitted one of her biggest problems was with ketamine after she started experimenting with drugs at the age of 14.
She changed her life in 2022 when she checked herself into a 12-step program after photos emerged of the star looking disheveled and jittery at Van Nuys airport.
Opening up on the latest episode of Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper, Cara detailed her troubled teenage years and battle with substance abuse.
The singer said: ‘Because I didn’t have money at that point, I started buying drugs to sell them and to do them.
‘When I bought the drugs to sell, I just did them all by myself. Not all of them. I sold half of them, did the rest.
‘So I basically did the drugs for free. Wasn’t a great drug dealer.’
Cara Delevingne, 33, has revealed she sold drugs as a teenager before she spiraled into addiction
The model admitted one of her biggest problems was with ketamine after she started experimenting with drugs at the age of 14 (pictured in 2007 aged 14)
The actress added: ‘I loved what drugs made me feel. I loved not having to think about my mum.
‘I loved not having to feel the pressure of not being good at school, not feeling good enough or loving myself. All of that went away.’
Cara said it was the moment her drug use escalated where she began taking acid ‘every day’ and suffered terrifying hallucinations.
She recalled: ‘I thought that my dad was God and my mum was the devil and I had to kill her to save the end of the world. Like, I lost my mind.’
Cara said her mental health deteriorated so badly she had breakdown at 15-years-old.
She explained: ‘I just became suicidal. My whole world exploded and I was like, “I think everything I’ve thought for the last 15 years is wrong”.
‘My brain was absolutely in turmoil. I would just try and knock myself out physically because I wanted to escape.’
Cara said Burning Man Festival ultimately became a turning point where she knew she needed to get sober, the same year she celebrated her 30th birthday.
She said: ‘I went straight to Burning Man. Then that happened and I was like, “I can get sober”.
‘I’d been to rehab before but I’d focus more on trauma and then I’d kind of dip back into things.’
She added: ‘I really needed to do it. A song came on on shuffle when I was alone in this hotel room and it was a song that played at a friend’s funeral who died of an overdose.
‘And in that one moment, I was like, “What am I doing? Why am I doing this?” And I threw all the drugs down the toilet.’
Back in September 2022, Cara was seen looking jittery while outside of Van Nuys airport. At one point, she walked around only in her socks and held a conversation on the phone while smoking.
Opening up on the latest episode of Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper, Cara detailed her troubled teenage years and battle with substance abuse
Another moment showed the model bending over next to her dog Alfie as a member of security stood close by.
She later left the airport inside a sleek, black SUV and was spotted sticking her feet out of the backseat window.
At the time, sources informed DailyMail.com that Delevingne had just returned from attending Burning Man.
‘She had just spent days in the desert, not eating all that much and she looked disheveled because she hadn’t had time to scrub up yet…,’ an insider said.
While talking to Variety last year in May, Cara opened up about being sober and stated, ‘You’re not alone.’
She then encouraged, ‘If I can do it, anyone can. But you need to communicate and be honest about it as much as you can – especially with yourself.
‘I think that’s what I’ve always done with anything in this business. Whether it’s been being vocal about anxiety, depression, recovery, anything, it’s just you owe it to people to talk about your struggles…
‘Because being in this world is not perfect. No one is perfect. So to be honest, it’s the least I can do.’
And during an interview with Vogue, Cara got candid about her decision to check into the 12-step program in 2022.
‘Before I was always into the quick fix of healing, going to a weeklong retreat or to a course for trauma, say, and that helped for a minute, but it didn’t ever really get to the nitty-gritty, the deeper stuff.’
The model explained, ‘This time I realized that 12-step treatment was the best thing, and it was about not being ashamed of that.
‘The community made a huge difference. The opposite of addiction is connection, and I really found that in 12-step.’
