Cara Delevingne recalls surprise pain from going sober and waking up with 'terrible' headaches
Cara Delevingne suffered unexpected 'pain' from going sober.
After giving up drinking in 2022, the 31-year-old supermodel, who recently launched a non-alcoholic wine, revealed she initially assumed she would feel better on mornings after she went out and dodged booze.
To her surprise, she ended up experiencing 'terrible' headaches the following day as she the result of drinking sugar-packed soft drinks.
'Nearly two years ago when I got sober, I thought, "I probably won't go out as much, my life's probably going to change." And to be honest I went out way more than before – which is great, apart from when you go out, you drink a hell of a lot of sugar,' she explained to The Sun.
But following her nights of sober partying, she said she would 'wake up in the morning with a terrible headache.'
Cara Delevingne suffered unexpected 'pain' from going sober before creating an alcohol-free wine for her brand Della Vite (seen last week)
'I'm sober to be healthy and to be happy. Instead, I feel left with pain,' the Paper Towns actress noted.
Cara, ultimately, decided to create an alcohol-free wine brand to keep away the headaches by making something 'beautiful tasting, great quality but low sugar and low calories.'
'I just like having something in my hand. For me, it was never about the alcohol,' she said. 'Whether it's a wedding or someone has broken up with someone, you reunite over a glass of something.'
Delevingne concluded: 'It's not about being sober, it's about being yourself. When I want to go out to have fun, I want to celebrate.'
In 2023, Cara told Vogue how she had checked herself into rehab after images published by DailyMail.com in 2022 gave her a wakeup call.
The model said she ended up reflecting on her mental health after sparking concern with a series of troubled public appearances.
She told Vogue about how she previously had not been ready to address her demons until she fell into a 'bad place': 'I've had interventions of a sort, but I wasn't ready. That's the problem.
'I hadn't seen a therapist in three years. I just kind of pushed everyone away, which made me realize how much I was in a bad place.
After giving up drinking in 2022, the 31-year-old supermodel revealed she initially thought she thought she would end up feeling better on mornings after she went out and dodged booze (seen holding an alcohol-free beverage)
'Nearly two years ago when I got sober, I thought, "I probably won't go out as much, my life's probably going to change." And to be honest I went out way more than before – which is great, apart from when you go out, you drink a hell of a lot of sugar,' she explained to The Sun
'I always thought that the work needs to be done when the times are bad, but actually the work needs to be done when they're good.
'The work needs to be done consistently. It's never going to be fixed or fully healed but I'm okay with that, and that's the difference… 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 that she had been lying to herself about her health and it wasn't until she saw herself in the airport photographs that she realized she needed help.
'I hadn’t slept. I was not okay,' she explained. 'It’s heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, "Okay, I don’t look well."
'You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for.'
