GBL hardest substance to withdraw from
Cara said she had to be medically weaned off GBL, describing it as probably the hardest substance to come off, requiring clinical supervision.
Snapshot · The Louis Theroux Podcast
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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Rock Bottom: Burning Man, the Airport Photos, and Losing Everything
At 46:33 · chapter starts 44:00
Louis describes the pivotal paparazzi photos that became a cultural moment: Cara at the airport after Burning Man, dishevelled, smoking, wearing a Free Britney t-shirt. Cara fills in what the photos didn't show: she'd had a seizure from the volume of drugs, packed up her enormous Burning Man luggage, got home to LA and found — then took — more drugs before heading to the airport. She hadn't slept. She hadn't showered. The sand was still in her hair. You can see it in the eyes, she says: absolutely wild and feral and not well. The photos went everywhere; jobs dried up. Brands didn't fire her directly but simply didn't renew. That public collapse, she says, was when she knew she needed to get sober — and the silence from the industry made it inescapably real. [1] — Cara Delevingne "After days without sleep at Burning Man, Cara had a seizure, scored more drugs at her LA home, and arrived at the airport barefoot, wild-ey…" 44:00
Burning Man Rock Bottom: The Airport Photos That Changed Everything
After days without sleep at Burning Man, Cara had a seizure, scored more drugs at her LA home, and arrived at the airport barefoot, wild-eyed, smoking in a Free Britney t-shirt. The photos went viral, brands quietly dropped her contracts, and the silence from the industry was deafening. That public collapse became the catalyst for everything that followed.
Airport photos cost her modelling contracts
After paparazzi shots from her post-Burning Man airport arrival went viral showing her visibly unwell, brands quietly declined to renew her contracts.
Narcan'd after fentanyl-laced cocaine OD
Cara overdosed — likely on fentanyl-contaminated cocaine — and had to be revived with Narcan by ambulance crew at her own home.
Narcan'd at Home: The Overdose That Broke the Cycle
Cara overdosed — likely on fentanyl-laced cocaine — and was revived with Narcan by paramedics at her home. Waking up restrained, surrounded by people and shame, her first conscious thought was that she wanted to die. That moment of absolute bottom became the turning point that sent her to residential treatment.
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