Supermodel Kate Moss has expressed anger at being made a scapegoat for cocaine use, saying she felt 'sick and quite angry' after photos of her taking the drug were published in 2005. In a rare interview on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Moss said the condemnation was hypocritical because 'everybody I knew took drugs'. She lost lucrative contracts and faced the threat of losing her daughter, Lila, though she was not charged.
Moss, 48, also spoke about the anxiety and mistreatment she suffered as a teenage model. She recalled being asked to take off her top for a bra catalogue shoot at 15, an experience she described as 'horrible'. She said she felt 'objectified and vulnerable and scared' during a 1992 Calvin Klein campaign with Mark Wahlberg, for which she took Valium to cope.
The model defended her ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp in his libel case against Amber Heard, stating, 'I know the truth about Johnny... he never kicked me down the stairs.' She also supported fashion designer John Galliano after his 2011 conviction for racist abuse, attributing his behaviour to an alcohol problem.
Moss addressed the 'heroin chic' label attached to her 1993 Vogue photos, insisting she was never anorexic and had never taken heroin. 'I was thin because I didn't get fed at shoots,' she said. She also clarified that the quote 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' was not hers but a note on a friend's fridge.
