Poppy Delevingne has revealed that her 2018 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has almost been completely scrubbed from the internet after concerns surrounding a "party trick" she performed.
During an episode of the Origins with Cush Jumbo podcast, the British actor spoke about her teenage years as well as when she claims to have opened a beer bottle with one eye.
Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for Delevingne and NBC, which airs The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, for comment on Monday.
"I can open a beer bottle with my eye," Delivingne said, to which Cush responded: "Do you put the bony part?"
However, Delevingne was quick to clear things up before Cush or any listeners of the podcast believed her.
"Can I actually just say something because it's honestly for health and safety? I have to tell the truth. I can't really open a beer bottle with my eye. It's a party trick because when I did [TV series] Genius Picasso and I had to do the Jimmy Fallon show," she said.
"He made me come out and I was on the sofa with Martin Short and Steve Martin, can you imagine? And Jimmy Fallon said, can you bring out a six-pack of beer? And do the party trick, which I did, so I was opening beer bottles for these, sort of, icons. And then, everybody at home, children, started doing it. If you look up that Jimmy Fallon episode, it doesn't exist."
Delevingne continued: "It's gone. I think at one point, Jimmy Fallon, said, through his thing, you've got to tell Poppy to tell everyone [...] it's actually not real."
While the episode can't be found online, a GIF of the moment Delevingne opened a beer bottle was uploaded to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon X account, formerly Twitter.
"@poppydelevingne shows off her party trick for opening beer bottles," the caption reads.
While it might look like the actor is opening the bottle with her eye, if you pay close attention, she is actually using her thumb to screw off the lid.
Delevingne added: "It's gone. I think at one point, Jimmy Fallon, said, through his thing, you've got to tell Poppy to tell everyone [...] it's actually not real."
Elsewhere in the episode, Delevingne spoke about being a parentified child while her mom—Pandora Delevingne—was battling a drug addiction. Her father is property developer Charles Delevingne.
John Sovec is a psychotherapist and the author of Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond. He previously told Newsweek that parentification is when a child is forced to take on the role of a parent.
"I was sort of 13, 14, suddenly going on 35, suddenly being the protector of my siblings, of my father, of the people that I loved the most, and trying to keep it all together, being the sort of glue that held everything together, and it was a lot of pressure," Delevingne said during the podcast episode.
"And sometimes I don't really know how I did it, but I did, and I'm very proud of that, but there are a lot of aspects of it that I don't really remember because I've managed to kind of... Block it out.
"I've done a lot of work on myself, I've done a lot of therapy, I've done a lot of healing [...] It's hard to remember it and I know that sounds really crazy... But I was able to block it out, but I'm proud of myself for being able to do that."
She added: "It was a tricky time, but again, I wouldn't do it in any other way because I really truly believe that it has shaped who I am today."
Newsweek contacted Charles and Pandora Delevingne via Poppy Delevingne's publicist for comment.
Pandora Delevingne previously told Mail Online that addiction was something she dealt with for decades. In the weeks after her 18th birthday, she was experimenting with heroin. While she has not taken heroin since, she continued to battle addiction throughout her life.
"Later on, it was morphine pills, opiate-based pills, the strongest painkillers you can get. I just wanted to be able to live a normal day without the anxiety—or what I thought was normal. For a while, I would. Of course, the addiction caught up with me. It always does," she said.
" ... The girls have had to live with me being too ill to mother them. When I went to treatment I'd just disappear without them knowing or understanding where I was going. They suffered from abandonment, from a lack of consistency and from me being odd. When I was stoned I was odd.
"All I know is it hurt them irrevocably. Actually, it's going to take even more time to really become... to let them trust me. They lost all hope really."
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