Model Bella Hadid attends Dior Beauty celebrates The Art of Color with Peter Philips on October 25, 2016 in New York City. (Photo : Getty Images for Dior Beauty/Nicholas Hunt)
Bella Hadid, Chrissy Teigen, and Cara Delevingne have candidly discussed their struggles with alcohol and how they found a path to recovery and peace amid their chaotic lives.
A Wake-Up Call and the Road to Recovery Last September, 30-year-old model Cara Delevingne was captured in photographs looking disheveled and behaving erratically outside California's Van Nuys Airport. "I hadn't slept. I was not OK," she later admitted to Vogue, revealing that she had been partying excessively to avoid facing her issues.
In retrospect, she saw those viral photos as "something to be grateful for"-the wake-up call she desperately needed. Three months later, Cara secretly entered rehab. A source close to her confirmed that the British model, who had her first experience with alcohol at the age of seven, spent December and January at Utah's Cirque Lodge getting sober with the support of friends such as Selena Gomez and Margot Robbie.
"She was tired of lying. She called a few close pals and broke down. There were a ton of tears, but she knew treatment was the only answer because the suffering in silence kills you," the source explained. Now committed to the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program and weekly therapy, Cara remains thankful and lives by the AA mantra: one day at a time.
Battling Anxiety and Alcohol Dependency For years, supermodel Bella Hadid would wake up "hysterical, in tears, alone," go to work, cry during lunch, cry again at night, and then repeat the cycle the next day. In early 2021, she spent two and a half weeks at a Tennessee treatment center, but soon found herself in a downward spiral, tormented by "crippling anxiety." The 26-year-old "often found herself medicating with alcohol," says an insider. "It was a horrible cycle that left her feeling shame, disappointment, and self-loathing afterward."
Bella eventually recognized how drinking affected her, particularly when it came to waking up with anxiety over something she had said years prior. She decided that the "pain and stress over those few drinks" simply wasn't worth it. In March, she announced on TikTok that she was "5 months alcohol-free." The insider notes, "Bella seems happier than she's been in years."
