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Naomi: Part two

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Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Hello, everybody! Welcome to the second and final part of our series on Naomi Campbell. In February 2001, Naomi Campbell woke to find that her private battle with drugs and alcohol had been turned into front-page news by the British tabloids. Could she have ignored it? Possibly. But instead, Naomi decided to fight. Big thanks to Pureology’s Hydrate Shampoo + Conditioner for making this episode possible. If you want to try Pureology’s Hydrate collection, you can shop it online via Adore Beauty, or in your local Pureology salon. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast. Want to support our show? We are sending air kisses, air tea, and air hugs (too far?) to anyone who clicks ‘subscribe’ on Apple (bonus hugs for anyone who leaves a five-star review, too) or ‘follow’ on Spotify. Still not enough? Well! Our hearts! See below for everything else. Click here to subscribe to ShameMore: http://apple.co/shamelesspod Subscribe to the weekly ‘ASK SHAMELESS’ newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gFbYLT Join our book club: https://www.instagram.com/theshamelessbookclub/ Check out our website: https://shamelessmediaco.com/ Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

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0:00.0

You're about the new rules. Call me a renegade. The one in the lions cage sipping on lemonade.

0:09.0

I'm a dream, got your match, stick the actor, I'm a see, yeah, Naomi Campbell woke to find that her private battle with drugs and alcohol had been turned into front page news by the British

0:25.9

tabloids. Could she have ignored it? Probably. But instead, Naomi decided to fight.

0:31.6

Welcome to Scandal from Shameless Podcast, the stories of the

0:35.1

biggest celebrity controversies revisited.

0:39.6

Hello, Zara McDonald.

0:40.8

Hello Michelle Andrews, we are back for part two of our two-part series on

0:44.9

Naomi Campbell. We are we have so much to cover today I know that we covered a lot in

0:50.4

episode one but I was just flicking through the notes we have for

0:53.6

episode two and it is a jam-packed one. Yeah we sort of started by talking about

0:58.3

how Naomi Campbell even got into modeling miss she was spotted by a modeling scout which was very of that time as

1:05.2

she was just hanging around after school in her school uniform. She shot to fame

1:10.4

almost immediately within months she was being flown to Paris and

1:14.0

working from there she was starring on the cover of L at 16. Yeah it wasn't always

1:18.0

easy for Naomi though she faced pretty intense racism throughout the early years

1:22.2

of her career and later on as we'll touch on in this

1:25.2

episode she once said from an early age I understood what it meant to be black you had to put in

1:30.3

extra effort you had to be twice as good. And good she was in her early

1:35.2

20s she became one of the most famous models in the world at a time when

1:38.9

supermodels were the kind of celebrity mish. However, she was also gaining a reputation for being a bit of a quote-unquote

1:46.9

Diva who also allegedly had a violent streak. In the late 90s, for example, her former assistant sued her, claiming that Naomi had damaged her clothes,

1:55.8

repeatedly lunched at her, verbally abused her, and threatened to eject her from a car onto a busy highway.

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