Naomi Campbell lifts lid on addiction issues that almost ‘killed’ her

The Super Models documentary teased in Apple TV+ trailer

Naomi Campbell has opened up about her grueling battle with drug and alcohol abuse in her early modeling days for a new documentary series titled, The Super Models.

The runway legend, 53, says she started abusing substances to help her deal with the grief of her childhood abandonment issues – as well as the shocking death of her close friend and beloved designer Gianni Versace.

In the Apple TV+ docuseries, the 53-year-old beauty icon bared all when it came to her game-changing career path in the modeling industry alongside fellow beauties Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington.

While also recalling her incredible rise to fame and success the four-episode-long project took time to reflect on Naomi’s tougher moments which took place during the height of her career.

During one scene Naomi admitted that she was slowly “killing” herself early in her career due to the amount of drugs she took in the 90s.

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Delving deeper into why she depended on drugs and alcohol so much, Naomi explained: “Grief has been a very strange thing in my life because it doesn’t always [show].

“I go into a shock and freak out when it actually happens, and then later is when I break. But I kept the sadness inside, I just dealt with it,” the mom-of-two said.

The model was likely referring to the time the fashion industry was turned upside down after famed designer Giovanni Maria “Gianni” Versace was shot dead outside his Miami Beach home in 1997.

Naomi had developed a close bond with the Italian fashion legend and was one of many who had been left heartbroken by his sudden death.

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Speaking about her adoration for the designer, Naomi shared: ‘[Late designer] Azzedine Alaïa was my papa. With him, I learned about chosen families. The same for Gianni Versace. 

“He was very sensitive to feeling me, like, he pushed me. How would push me to step outside and go further when I didn’t think I had it within myself to do it. So, when he died, my grief became very bad,” she revealed.

Adding: “When I started using, that was one of the things I tried to cover up, was grief. Addiction is such a… it’s just a bulls**t thing, it really is.

“You think, ‘Oh it’s gonna heal that wound’. It doesn’t. It can cause such huge fear and anxiety. So I got really angry,” Naomi went on to say.

It was clear things had got out of hand when the British-born model famously collapsed at a 1999 photo shoot after five years of cocaine addiction.

The terrifying moment prompted her to check into a rehab that year.

“When you try to cover something up, your feelings… You spoke about abandonment. I tried to cover that with something. You can’t cover it. I was killing myself. It was very hurtful,” she said in a confessional.

Naomi, who began her career at age 15, also addressed her “mistakes,” pointing out: “I’ve always owned up to them. I chose to go to rehab. It was one of the best and only things I could have done for myself at that time. It is scary to pick up the mirror and look into the mirror. It is scary, and it’s taken me many years to work on and deal with.”

The Supermodels is available to stream on Apple TV+.

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