Naomi Campbell was ‘killing’ herself with cocaine grieving Gianni Versace
nypost.comApple TV+ docuseries “The Super Models,” which dropped Wednesday, Naomi Campbell admits to slowly “killing” herself in the ’90s with a drug addiction that helped her suppress her feelings, such as her devastation over Gianni Versace’s shocking murder.“Grief has been a very strange thing in my life because it doesn’t always [show],” Campbell, 53, shared in the four-episode series. “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.”Campbell revealed she especially struggled with grief when Versace, her good friend and legendary designer, was gunned down outside his South Beach mansion in July 1997.“[Late designer] Azzedine Alaïa was my papa.
With him, I learnt about chosen families. The same for Gianni Versace,” Campbell explained.“He was very sensitive to feeling me, like, he pushed me.
He 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,” Campbell recalled.The mother of two continued: “When I started using, that was one of the things I tried to cover up, was grief.
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