Cara Delevingne hits back at ‘lies’ after Vogue claims she falls asleep on shoots

 
Backlash: Cara Delevingne says her sleeping is proof that she works hard
Alistair Foster25 June 2014

Model Cara Delevingne launched an extraordinary attack on the fashion industry and American Vogue today after one of the magazine’s writers accused her of falling asleep twice during an interview.

She claimed napping was a sign she was “working too hard” and criticised the fashion world for not being “understanding or compassionate”.

The Vogue article, written by Plum Sykes, claimed that Delevingne arri- ved late to the interview and that the model said she had “overslept”, insisting : “I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.”

It went on to allege Delevingne, 21, asked if she and her interviewer could have massages before their chat, then go to a farm later in the day.

After waiting an hour, Sykes said, a masseuse told her that Delevingne had fallen asleep. The English model later emerged to say: “I’m so sorry. I fall asleep everywhere. Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.”

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Sykes then contacted one of Cara’s regular photographers Tim Walker, who is said to have told her the star falls asleep on “every shoot” — even sleeping for “seven hours on one Mulberry shoot”.

Just hours after the report was published in the early hours of this morning Delevingne took to Twitter to rebut the claims and accused Sykes of “lying”.

Hard working: Cara Delevingne has hit back at 'lies' (Picture: Dave Benett)

She wrote: “Why do people in the industry lie so much???? They would rather see you fail than succeed. What happened to supporting each other? It’s even worse when your trying to fight people that have all the power because then you are powerless.

“All I can say is I work extremely hard and ‘sleeping’ is proof that sometimes I work too hard. I apologise for being so ambitious. This just shows that the fashion industry is not the most understanding or compassionate of industries.

“That only applies to the people that sit around not really caring and never really bothering to get to know you or what it’s really like. What happened to supporting each other?”

The model later posted a quote from her DJ friend Chelsea Leyland on Instagram, which read: “You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy.

Hitting back: Cara claimed people 'would rather see you fail than succeed' (Picture: Dave Benett)

“If you round your edges, you lose your edge. Apologise for mistakes. Apologise for unintentionally hurting someone — profusely. But don’t apologise for being who you are.”

American Vogue has not yet responded to the model’s claim.

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