Lana Del Rey Tells GQ UK That Alcohol Was Her First Love

Poor Lana Del Rey. She had to go to boarding school at the age of 14 to get sober…

The 26-year-old “Video Games” crooner ditched her clothes and her inhibitions for a nude photo shoot and even more revealing interview in the latest issue of British GQ magazine. The New York product told the men’s mag, which named her Woman of the Year, that even before she moved back to the Big Apple to seek fame as 18-year-old Lizzy Grant, she was already living a rock n’ roll lifestyle.

“It’s been nine years since my last drink,” she said in the GQ UK interview. “That’s really why I got sent to boarding school aged 14 – to get sober. “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.” Even while writing her cryptic love songs after cleaning up her act in a Brooklyn rehab, one muse was alcohol, which she calls “the first love” of her life.

“A great deal of what I wrote on ‘Born To Die’ is about these wilderness years. 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’.”

“It didn’t affect my writing, but it affected my happiness,” she said. “I became depressed. Because I love New York so much. I was born there; it was my city. I was going to die there. “As a person who becomes really attached to places for their energy and their beauty, for me New York was a match. To lose it, it really felt like my life was over.”

Poor thang. White folks sure have some different problems!

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