Kate Moss drugs and sex scandals

British tabloid Daily Mirror last week published several photos showing supermodel Kate Moss snorting coke. The Mirror didn't post the photos online, but Gawker posted a scan of the front page.

Not to be outdone, rival tabloid News of the World ran a weekend feature about Moss's "3-in-bed lesbian orgies", which oddly enough included Jude Law on occasion.

DRUG-DAZED Kate Moss lay on a hotel bed with star pals Sadie Frost and Hollyoaks actress Davinia Taylor and spoke the words that would change their friendships forever.

"Have you ever had sex with a woman?" purred the supermodel—gazing at Davinia as she slipped out of her party dress. "Well, why don't we do it right now?"

So the three pals stripped and began a lesbian three-in-a-bed sex session in a suite in London's posh Claridges after a drunken showbiz bash.

The depressing public ritual of handwringing (what kind of message does this send to the children?) and apology (to her corporate sponsors, at least) ensued. This Daily Mail piece recaps the assorted "allegations" and backlash.

Leading fashion companies were under growing pressure to axe Kate Moss last night after further revelations about her cocaine addiction and debauched lifestyle.

Anti-drugs campaigners have urged the brands to dump Miss Moss. David Raynes, of the National Drug Prevention Alliance, said: 'The public will find it very hard to understand why responsible companies who are conscious of their public image carry on supporting Kate Moss despite everything that has emerged this week when she is a role model for young girls.'

"Role model"? Please shut up. She's a supermodel — snorting coke in a recording studio with her rockstar boyfriend and fucking other celebrities in assorted combinations are all part of the job description. A more reasoned response from The Times.

The shock? That anyone is shocked. Moss became famous as a face of “heroin chic”. Did anyone think that rather than snort coke she would sip cocoa? The tabloids like nothing better than to tap out a line on “Kate’s shame”. But what is Moss’s “shame”? It will indeed be a shame if drugs mess up her life, but that is her choice.

I don’t do drugs but I feel a liberal society should not behave like the Taliban to those who do. When bent bobbies made dawn raids on rock stars in the 1960s it merely hinted to young fans that drugs were glamorous.

An old Priory Clinic hand tells me that while alcoholics are deeply human, druggies tend to be just deeply dull: being vacuous, they actually enjoy feeling vacant. Take away the drugs and you take away the one subject they have to talk about. That is their cross. Moss is a model but has never said she is a role model.

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