Supermodel Naomi Campbell is telling all about the time where she swept floors. In a diary she kept during her community service stint at the New York Sanitation Department garage, Naomi reveals how she found peace in cleaning. “I find solace in sweeping. I have no other responsibility. I have no phone. I have the time to think. Just have, you know, peace.”
Naomi also learned how to associate with the common people and how it taught her to have self respect. “Two of the people in the room have never been on a plane. They ask me what it’s like, and I’m embarrassed to tell them I was on seven planes the week before alone. It’s so interesting to get to know so many different sorts of people.”
In her diary Naomi also reveals how the community stint helped her come to terms with addictions. “One co-worker tells me how he ended up here, basically because of alcohol. I bond with him, and I tell him I’m in recovery. Some people can handle a drink or a line of cocaine, but I’ve finally come to realize that, for me, it’s all or nothing — and it has to be nothing. And my life has changed since.”
The diary will be published in W magazine and you can read about Naomi's final day where she went to work in her Dolce and Gabbana number and stated, “I’ve paid my debt to society. It’s just one day at a time. That’s how I’m going to live.” So far Naomi has been tamed, there have been no breakdowns, verbal beat-downs and violence against her assistants.
