Author John Green has defended Cara Delevingne after she caused uproar on social media with an ‘awkward' interview promoting her new film. Ms Delevingne stars in the film adaptation of John Green's latest novel Paper Towns, and was being interviewed as part of the whirlwind publicity tour. But the 22-year-old was slammed by TV anchors on breakfast show Good Day Sacramento, following the now-infamous interview which aired this month. After introducing the model-turned-actress as ‘Carla', the interview went from bad to worse as the interviewers proceeded to ask Cara whether she had read the book.

Scroll down for video  Infamous: Supermodel Cara Delevingne during the 'awkward' interview on Good Day Sacramento, in which the anchors introduced her as 'Carla' before asking her whether she had read John Green's Paper Towns 'Awkward': The model-turned-actress faced criticism following the interview, but she has fought back, tweeting that 'some people just don't understand sarcasm' 'Uh, no I never read the book, or the script. I kind of winged it,' she quipped, before giving her actual answer to their question.

After the three-minute interview, the anchors accused her of being in a 'bad mood' and suggested she 'take a nap'.  Indianapolis author John Green has now published an article on blogsite Medium.com, entitled ‘But Did You Read the Book? Cara Delevingne, Press Junketry and Me'. ‘I watched as again and again, she was asked this question,' he writes. ‘Cara has read the book (multiple times), but the question is annoying - not least because her male co-star, Nat Wolff, was almost always asked when he'd read the book, while Cara was almost always asked if she'd read it.' He goes on to describe the grueling nature of publicity tours, xxx and how most of the team get through the hundreds of interviews by turning themselves into ‘automatons' and reverting to a series of scripted answers.

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