Ketamine tolerance dwarfed large men
Cara's ketamine tolerance was so extreme that a dose she considered small would floor a 6-foot-5 man, which she initially wore as a badge of pride.
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S8 EP4: Cara Delevingne discusses getting sober, engagement rumours, and being Karl Lagerfeld's muse
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Jun 29, 2026
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Ketamine and the Art of Disappearing
At 24:05 · chapter starts 23:20
Louis admits he's never taken ketamine — with mild embarrassment — and Cara is gently disabused of the idea it's just a horse tranquiliser. She explains the clinical reality (it's a hospital anaesthetic) before describing her own use: she wasn't taking small recreational doses, she was doing long lines explicitly to knock herself out. The phrase she uses is telling — she wanted 'to disappear'. The tolerance she built was staggering: she gives away what she considers a small amount to a six-foot-five man at a party, tells him it will floor him, and is proved right every time. At the time she wore it as a badge of hardcore bravado; she acknowledges now it was probably frightening for people around her. [1] — Cara Delevingne "Cara didn't take ketamine recreationally — she used it to disappear. She describes doing enormous lines not for a buzz but to fully tranqui…" 23:18
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