Cara Delevingne Opens Up About Depression on Twitter

Cara Delevingne (Photo: Getty Images)

In a series of tweets in service of “set[ting] the record straight,” Cara Delevingne shared with the world her struggle with depression and clarified that she’s not put the modeling world completely in her rear view.

With an impressive six films, including this summer’s Suicide Squad, on the horizon, it appeared that Delevingne was focusing solely on acting now. But Thursday night, soon after her new ad campaign for Saint Laurent first appeared on social media, she tweeted that she’s not done with modeling just yet.

Delevingne continued that she’d gone through a rough patch while modeling which had left her burnt out.

Delevingne has been open in the past about her struggles with mental health. In a profile for Vogue last year, Delevingne talked about strong, unhealthy emotions which hit her when she was 15.

“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,” Delevingne said. “I never cut, but I’d scratch myself to the point of bleeding. I just wanted to dematerialize and have someone sweep me away.”

Speaking with Rupert Everett at the Women in the World Summit, Delevingne spoke about the damage her success in modeling had done to her psyche.

“I wanted the world to swallow me up, and nothing seemed better to me than death,” Delevingne said. “After a while I got sick and got a condition called psoriasis. I felt disconnected from myself, but my agency simply shoved me into a doctor’s surgery, where I got cortisone shots, but — in reality — I wanted someone to stop me, but nobody did.”

Delevingne ended her self-proclaimed “word vomit” Thursday with an inspiring message about bettering herself.