S8 EP4: Cara Delevingne discusses getting sober, engagement rumours, and being Karl Lagerfeld's muse

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Her Mother's Illness and the Roots of Her Trauma

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Louis asks carefully about Cara's mother, and Cara opens up with characteristic candour. Her mother experienced both mental health and substance issues, alongside serious physical illness — including a near-death caused by a toxic herbal tea from a monk in Thailand that caused her bowels to rupture and left her with a colostomy bag. Cara describes her mother as a medical marvel who doctors cannot believe is still alive. But the emotional legacy of that childhood is what Cara really unpicks: she was so consumed with monitoring her mother's survival — listening for her breathing at night, checking she was still there — that her own needs simply didn't register. The anger that accumulated from feeling unable to save her mother, she says, couldn't go outward, so it went inward. ^{[1] — Cara Delevingne "Cara grew up checking whether her mother was still breathing before she could sleep, terrified of finding her dead in the night. Her mother…" 26:35 Play}