Naomi Campbell is getting candid about grief. The 53-year-old English model appears in the new Apple TV+ series The Super Models and discussed her struggles with addiction in her early years, as well as in the wake of her close friend Gianni Versace‘s sudden death. Keep reading to find out more… “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— thing, it really is,” Naomi said. “You think, ‘Oh, it’s gonna heal that wound.’ It doesn’t,” she continued. “It can cause such huge fear and anxiety.
So I got really angry.” She went on to say that she had learned about “chosen families” through her friendship with Gianni, so his murder in 1997 was incredibly challenging for her. “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,” Naomi recalled.
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