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Campbell Candid About Drug Abuse
Naomi Campbell doesn't like others to dish about her drug problems, but apparently she doesn't mind doing it herself.
Just four months after the catwalker triumphed in a legal battle to keep her drug treatment private, she sat down with a British talk show host to come clean about her history of drug abuse.
A transcript of the show, which is set to air Saturday, was released Friday. In it, Campbell discusses the specifics of her history with drugs and what steps she has taken to combat the problem.
The supermodel tells host Michael Parkinson that she was once hooked on "a speedy drug" that she first tried 10 years ago.
"No one forced me to do it," she said. "I did it because I wanted to. I don't have any blame for anyone but myself."
Parkinson asked her if the drug was "like cocaine," and Campbell confirmed that it was.
"I go to [rehabilitation] meetings in every country I'm in...I have a sponsor," she said. "When you stop drugs, you have to stop everything."
Campbell waged a legal war against London's Daily Mirror following a February 2001 spread that detailed the model's visits to Narcotics Anonymous, complete with pictures.
Britain's High Court initially agreed with the model that her confidentiality and right to privacy had been breached, awarding her $6,280 in damages and ordering the Mirror to cover her court costs, said to be somewhere in the $300,000 range.
But six months later, the verdict was turned over on appeal and Campbell was ordered to cover the tabloid's legal bill, estimated at $670,000.
The model refused to give up her fight, and in May she became victorious once more with a 3-2 judgment from Britain's highest court, the Law Lords, that the paper had indeed violated her rights.
"Despite the weight that must be given to the right of freedom of expression that the press needs if it is to play its role effectively, I would hold that there was here an infringement to Miss Campbell's right to privacy that cannot be justified," a judge said in his decision.
The Mirror's editor at the time, Piers Morgan, was outraged by the decision.
"This is a very good day for lying, drug-abusing prima donnas who want to have their cake with the media and the right to then shamelessly guzzle it with their Cristal champagne," he said in a statement.
"If ever there was a less deserving case for creating what is effectively a backdoor privacy law it would be Miss Campbell--but that's show biz," he added.
Apparently, Campbell is now ready to regurgitate some of that cake and Cristal and throw her hard-earned privacy to the wind in return for some time in the spotlight.
That's show biz.
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