Community service humbles Naomi
Monday,
May
21,
2007
British
supermodel
Naomi
Campbell
-
who
was
sentenced
to
work
at
New
York's
sanitation
department
for
throwing
a
mobile
phone
at
her
former
housekeeper
-
was
terrified
five
days
of
sweeping
and
cleaning
had
taken
their
toll
on
her
face.
Naomi
wrote
in
The
Naomi
Diaries
for
a
US
magazine:
"I
start
to
feel
the
wear
and
tear
of
the
week.
I
see
bags
under
my
eyes.
I
think,
'Oh
my
god.
I
need
a
good
night's
sleep.'"
The 36-year-old admits she was also shocked to discover many of her community service co-workers had never left the US. She said, "Two of the people in the room have never been on a plane. They ask me what it's like and I'm embarrassed to tell them I was on seven planes the week before alone." Naomi also revealed her addictive personality got her hooked on sweeping during her community service.
She wrote in one diary entry: "I keep on sweeping. I'm moving so fast they tell me to slow down. I'm getting very protective of my pile of rubbish - kind of the way I feel about my Herm? I keep looking around to make sure no one is crossing into the area I was assigned to sweep. I guess that's my all-or-nothing behaviour again. Once I start sweeping, I have to sweep everything."
The fiery-tempered model admits she started taking drugs when she was 23 to deal with being thrust into the fashion industry at such a young age. She said, "I started taking drugs to escape or deal with some disaster, like when someone died. I lost a lot of friends in 1997, and that was the year I really fell down emotionally."
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