The supermodel Cara Delevigne33, revisited a difficult time in his life on a trip to Louis Theroux’s podcast. She recalled an overdose she had in which she had to be rescued by her girlfriend at the time who called the police to help her.
The interviewer recalled a paparazzi capture in 2022, when the actress appeared altered at an airport, and she said that, at the time, she was under the influence of drugs and had had a seizure. “I was carrying a lot of things on trips to ‘Burning Man’ (a festival in the United States), so I was lifting suitcases under the influence of drugs and I had a seizure,” he recalled and adds that his seizures were related to a lack or excess of illicit substances. “You can see my eyes, I look absolutely wild and untamed and I’m not okay.”
For her, being seen in that state was one of the drivers of her recovery, as it caused her to lose work and generated concern from everyone. “They didn’t exactly fire me, but they didn’t renew contracts. And when you’re a model, you’re expected to maintain the brand’s standards in some way.”
Cara remembers that she understood that she needed to get sober, but it was very difficult to face the consequences, and “the more I got sober, the more I understood how seriously I had messed up.” “I couldn’t stay sober and I ended up having an overdose, because I think I had bought it. They gave me naxolone, I ended up in a hospital and that’s where it happened.”
She remembers that she received a dose of medication — used to quickly reduce the effect of opioids and wake up patients — from the paramedics who arrived at her home and had to be paralyzed by the team. “My girlfriend called the police, ambulance, whatever,” he explained.
Upon surviving the moment, Cara remembers that she “wanted to die immediately.” “You know exactly what you just put the people you love through and you see the pain in their eyes. The shame. It makes me want to cry, it’s a lot to forgive. It was one of the most painful things that ever happened to me: doing that to someone.”
After that, she remembers that it was the last time she used drugs. “For some reason, that changed everything. I prayed every day for it to end.” For her, the difficult period helped her understand art and music as a place to put her pain and forgiveness.
