Cara Delevingne opens up about the deeply personal journey behind her music. She talks about sobriety, mental health, vulnerability and why she waited until now to share this side of herself with the world. The star reflects on turning pain into art, finding connection through music and creating an album that felt fully honest. She also discusses songwriting, her creative process, collaborators, live performance nerves and the artists who have inspired her most.
Cara Delevingne: I didn’t wanna do this album unless I felt like I was metaphorically exposing my innards. For some people, I think it might be a bit of a shock that I’m doing music, but it is something I’ve done since I was a kid.
Tetris Kelly: Welcome to Billboard News. It’s Tetris, and I’m so happy you’re here with me today, especially knowing that you had a show last night, so you were busy.
I would say so. I’m excited, though. I’m excited to meet you.
No, excited to meet you and hang out.
And I wanna just start off by saying I didn’t know you were doing this interview, by the way, and I’m really glad it’s you.
Well, I love to get to meet new people for the first time.
You can tell that when you do your interviews. And it was really nice.
Thank you. Yeah. Well, let me start by asking the question that everybody’s gonna wanna know, OK?
What is that?
What’s the catalyst for this moment? Why did you decide this was the time you wanted to release this?
The catalyst for me was, it wasn’t about if, it was about when. Some things you just can’t control. There was a point in which I’m not someone that prays a lot, but I was praying every day to make something powerful, beautiful, creative out of the pain I was going through at the time. This was a period of time where I was trying to get sober. And for some people, I think it might be a bit of a shock that I’m doing music, but it is something I’ve done since I was a kid. But it’s been something really personal for me, quite sacred. Something that I was always really shy of because I just thought everyone else was so good, and it was something that I used as therapy for myself.
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