By Olumide Adesida
Cara Delevingne has revealed that her privileged but troubled upbringing almost drove her to self-harm as a teenager. The model-turned-actress admitted to the fact that she did harmful things to herself just ‘to try and knock myself out,’ she said.
The 22-year-old described how she would scratch herself, was prescribed anti-psychotic drugs and, at her lowest point, contemplated taking her own life.
Cara Delevingne, who has modelled for Mulberry and Burberry, believes she grew up too quickly because of her socialite mother’s addiction to heroin. She added that the experience left her to battle with her own demons during her teenage years.
‘This is something I haven’t been open about, but it’s a huge part of who I am,’ she told US Vogue.
‘All of a sudden I was hit with a massive wave of depression and anxiety and self-hatred, where the feelings were so painful that I would slam my head against a tree to try to knock myself out.
‘I never cut, but I’d scratch myself to the point of bleeding. I just wanted to dematerialise and have someone sweep me away.’
