It’s only been a few months since Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson sent the media into a frenzy by having what we all thought was a kitsch Vegas wedding. And while it actually turned out to be a symbolic ‘commitment ceremony’the media hasn’t stopped talking about the pair since.
They met on the set of music drama Her Smell, in which they played members of a rock band. Initially the pair kept their relationship private, avoiding posting photographs of each other on social media or discussing each other in the press. But this changed in June, when Cara gave an acceptance speech at an awards gala in New York and thanked Ashley for ‘showing me what real love is and how to accept it’. Since then it’s been clear to friends that the pair are committed to one another – with or without a wedding.
Now, Delevingne has opened up about their relationship, saying it’s the first time she’s let someone in.
‘I’d never truly let anyone in before, for fear of them leaving,’ she told Porter magazine. ‘I never really trusted people, or felt worthy of it, and I always pushed them away.’
She then goes on to say that Benson made it clear that pushing her away wasn’t going to be possible in this relationship.
‘She’s the first person that has said, “You can’t push me away. I’m going to be nice to you, I love you.” I’m just like, wait, so all I have to do is just let you be nice to me? Why have I never done that before?’
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Cara Delevingne in metallic gold at the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year awards.
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Cara Delevingne in a Burberry trench and an orange cross body bag.
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Cara Delevingne at the Jake Bugg Burberry presentation.
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Cara Delevingne at the British Fashion Awards, 2012.
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Cara Delevingne at the Victoria's Secret show.
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Cara Delevingne at the Glamour awards.
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Cara Delevingne at the launch of Mac x Carine Roitfeld.
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Cara Delevingne at the Met Gala, 2014.
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Cara Delevingne at the ELLE Style Awards, 2015.
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Cara Delevingne at the SS15 Burberry show.
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Cara Delevingne at Met Gala, 2015.
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Cara Delevingne at the Paper Towns premiere.
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Cara Delevingne at the Paper Towns premiere.
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Cara Delevingne at the Paper Towns photo call.
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Cara Delevingne at the Paper Towns New York photo call.
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Cara Delevingne in a Yves Saint Laurent star print dress at the 2015 MTV VMA’s.
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Cara Delevingne at the Pan premiere.
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Cara Delevingne at the Burberry show.
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Cara Delevingne at the Paper Towns premiere.
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Cara Delevingne at the Chanel couture show.
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Cara Delevingne at the MTV movie awards, 2016.
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Cara Delevingne at CinemaCon, 2016.
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Cara Delevingne at the Suicide squad premiere.
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Cara Delevingne at Cannes, 2014.
Delevingne also talks about finding her voice in her career in the interview, and reveals how badly she wanted to play Vignette Stonemoss in upcoming Amazon Prime show Carnival Row, alongside Orlando Bloom.
‘I would have done anything to play her. [Vignette] has lost so much, but she never plays the victim. She still has compassion and forgiveness for people who’ve hurt her. We can all learn something from her.’