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'Cocaine made me feel awful'
01/03/2007 14:13 - (SA)
London - British supermodel Naomi Campbell said cocaine addiction had made her feel "awful," in an interview published Wednesday -- but added it was dealers, not users, who should be targeted by police.
She also spoke of her close friend Kate Moss's links to drugs after the fellow supermodel featured in grainy newspaper photographs in 2005 allegedly chopping out lines of cocaine.
Campbell, 36, who attends daily Narcotics Anonymous meetings to stay clean, told GQ magazine that she was first offered the drug at the age of 24 at a concert in an unnamed European country.
"It made me feel invincible. Like I could conquer the world. I was just completely over-confident, but it's all a misconception because when you wake up the next day, it's all gone and you feel awful," she said.
"And the more you take drugs, the more you want. And that's how you become an addict."
But she said that drug users should not be hounded by police: "Go get the drug dealers, not the takers. Drug taking has been going on for centuries and everybody does it."
'Kate is hurting herself'
Campbell also spoke frankly about Moss's drugs-related run-ins, telling the magazine: "She is hurting herself and when it's exposed, she doesn't have the space or time to help herself because everyone is looking at her. It's hard."
And she described as "ridiculous" moves by the Spanish authorities to ban so-called size-zero models from the catwalk.
Campbell was sentenced to five days community service last month after pleading guilty to throwing a mobile phone which hit her maid, Ana Scolavino.
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