After Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford spoke about their personal difficult moments at the beginning of their careers, it was Naomi Campbell’s turn to proceed with a shocking confession of her soul in the new documentary “The Supermodels”.

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The top model of the 80s and 90s, among others, spoke about her battle with drug and alcohol addiction when she started strutting the catwalks as “the black gazelle.”

As the 53-year-old Campbell explained today, substance abuse was her way of dealing with the grief she felt due to the abandonment of her father and the death of her close friend and beloved designer Gianni Versace.

“When I started using, that was one of the things I tried to cover up, the sadness. You think it will heal this wound. He doesn’t. It can cause tremendous fear and anxiety. That’s why I got so angry” he said into the Apple TV+ camera.

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In the interview, she admitted that substance abuse was leading her down a life-threatening path. “When you try to cover something, your feelings…you talked about giving up. You can’t cover her up. I was killing myself. It was very painful,” Campbell said and added: “My mistakes, I always admitted them. I chose to go to a rehab center. It was one of the best and unique things I could have done for myself at that moment. It’s scary to pick up the mirror and look at yourself….it took me many years to work through it and deal with it.”