LONDON Thursday February 18 (Reuters)
- British supermodel Kate Moss has revealed she is a recovering
alcoholic who at one stage had not walked down a catwalk sober
for 10 years.
Moss, 25, described a hedonistic
jet-set life of champagne, vodka and marijuana in her decade
as a top international model.
But she told The Face magazine
in an interview that "things got out of control'' and that
after five weeks in a London clinic specializing in drink and
drug abuse she hopes to have put the past behind her.
Moss, who came to fame as a waif-like
15-year-old, said that in the worst days of her addiction she
started drinking at 10 in the morning and would carry a hip flask
on photo shoots.
"I kind of lost the plot
really there a little bit,'' she said. "I don't want to
go back to how I was.''
Moss said she had not walked
down a catwalk sober in 10 years in a world where some top |
models regularly started their
days with champagne.
"That's what you do. You
just kind of have champagne. You always have champagne before
shows. Always. Even at 10 in the morning. It got to the point
one time when we said 'We're not going out without any champagne.'
Terrible.''
Millionaire Moss, who now attends
meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, said she started drinking and
smoking marijuana at the age of 12 in the homes of friends on
her way to school in south London.
After booking herself into a
London clinic in November, she says she has now thrown out her
hip flask and has never been happier.
"I'm sober. I'm single.
I have great friends. I like my job. I'm not stupid,'' she said.
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