Supermodel Cara Delevingne says she's now 4 months sober after a stint in rehab

• Actress and model Cara Delevingne told Vogue she's now four months sober.
• She said that seeing herself looking unwell in paparazzi photos was a "reality check" for her.

Actress and supermodel Cara Delevingne says she's now four months sober after a stint in rehab.

Delevingne told Vogue about her struggles with alcohol abuse for the magazine's cover story, published on March 8. The "Suicide Squad" actress told Vogue she checked herself into rehab late last year.

"Before I was always into the quick fix of healing, going to a weeklong retreat or to a course for trauma, say, and that helped for a minute, but it didn't ever really get to the nitty-gritty, the deeper stuff," she said.

"This time I realized that 12-step treatment was the best thing, and it was about not being ashamed of that," she added. "The opposite of addiction is connection, and I really found that in 12-step."

She said she's still not ready to give up smoking yet, because it's "too much" for her to do right now.

Delevingne also told Vogue that her first experience with alcohol abuse was when she was seven years old, at a family wedding.

"I woke up in my granny's house in my bedroom with a hangover, in a bridesmaid's dress," Delevingne, 30, told Vogue. "I'd gone around nailing glasses of champagne."

Delevingne said she wanted to get help after she saw photos of herself in the press in September which appeared to show her behaving erratically at a Los Angeles airport.

The paparazzi pictures were published on Page Six, and show Delevingne with disheveled hair, smoking a cigarette, and wearing dirty socks without shoes. She was also photographed leaving the airport with her feet sticking out of a window of the SUV that picked her up.

Delevingne told Vogue that she had not slept and had just returned from Burning Man, a festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

"It's heartbreaking because I thought I was having fun, but at some point it was like, 'Okay, I don't look well,'" she told Vogue. "You know, sometimes you need a reality check, so in a way those pictures were something to be grateful for."

Delevingne's representatives did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.