Cara Delevingne reveals she first got drunk aged seven and mental health issues ... trends now
Cara Delevingne has revealed her issues with substance abuse started when she was a child, culminating in her breakdown aged 15.
Speaking to Vogue magazine the 30-year-old model confessed that she first got drunk aged seven, recalling: 'I woke up in my granny's house in my bedroom with a hangover, in a bridesmaid's dress. I'd gone around nailing glasses of Champagne.'
Three years later she was prescribed sleeping pills at only 10 years old in a bid to manage her insomnia and as a teenager she was diagnosed with dyspraxia, a neurological condition affecting physical co-ordination.
It was this Cara states that began her mental health issues and self-harm, revealing she tried art therapy, music therapy, EMDR and CBT in a bid to manage it.
Aged 15, Cara had a mental breakdown, previously explaining it was a result of 'everything I hadn't dealt with bubbled up to the surface.'
Family: Cara Delevingne has revealed her issues with substance abuse started when she was a child (pictured in 2002 with mum Pandora, sisters Chloe and Poppy and dad Charles)
Probing deeper into the troubled time, she said: 'I was on medication and it just…it saved my life. This wasn't a chemical imbalance as much as it was a full trauma response.
'I hadn't uncovered the f***ing hole inside, the real whirlpool within. And I still think there's a part of diagnosis and labeling that is damaging. There were so many times that I was encouraged to take this or be put on that.'
The model-turned-actress admitted that she would self harm by hitting her head against a tree ‘to try and knock myself out’.
She described how she would scratch herself, was prescribed
