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“lt’s been nine years since my last drink,”
she explains, a subject she’s never gone on record about so candidly before.
“That’s really why I got sent to boarding school aged 14 — to get sober.”
Did it work?
‘‘I was a big drinker at the time. I would drink every day. I would drink alone. I thought the whole concept was so f***ing cool. A great deal of what I wrote on Born To Die is about these wilderness years. A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York. And when I write about the thing that I’ve lost I feel like I’m writing about alcohol because that was the first love of my life. Sure, there have been people, but it’s really alcohol.”
I ask Del Rey how she got over her alcohol addiction:
“My parents were worried, I was worried. I knew it was a problem when I liked it more than I liked doing anything else. I was like, I’m f**‘ed. I am totally f‘*‘ed. Like, at first it’s fine and you think you have a dark side – it’s exciting – and then you realise the dark side wins every time if you decide to indulge in it. It’s also a completely different way of living when you know that, it’s like being a different species of person. It was horrific. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
Drugs too became part of her life:
“It was everything in the end.”
Heroin?
“No. But other things just to feel different.”
In the end, Del Rey ended up leaving school and being sent to rehab.
“I moved back to New York and worked at an outreach programme for drug and alcohol addicts in Brooklyn.”
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Really amazing interview, she drags haters.. speaks from the heart...
She was sent to detox at 14, rehab at 18
She seems like a genuinely interesting person.
Giving me Jen Lindlely tea's