Naomi Campbell says she turned to drugs and alcohol to 'cover up' childhood traumaABC / The Supermodels, Apple TV+
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 When you try to cover something up, your feelings, you spoke about abandonment, I tried to cover
00:10 that with something.
00:12 You can't cover it.
00:14 I was killing myself.
00:16 And I mean, I've not always displayed my anger in the appropriate time.
00:22 It's always been in the inappropriate time.
00:25 And it's a manifestation of a deeper issue, I think, anger.
00:30 And that for me, I think, is based on insecurity, self-esteem, and loneliness.
00:36 And being abandoned.
00:38 Being abandoned.
00:39 That's what I mean.
00:40 That's what my core issues are, abandonment and rejection.
00:45 And that puts me in a real vulnerable space.
00:48 And everyone thinks, oh, Naomi's a really tough girl and really strong.
00:51 But that's what I want to appear to people to be like, because I fear that if I don't,
00:57 they're going to just walk all over me if they really knew.
01:00 When you try to cover something up, your feelings, you spoke about abandonment, I tried to cover
01:05 that with something.
01:07 You can't cover it.
01:10 I was killing myself.