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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Vanessa Thorpe

Kate Moss ‘sick and angry’ at being made a scapegoat for taking cocaine

Kate Moss arriving at New York’s Met Gala in May 2022
Kate Moss arriving at New York’s Met Gala in May 2022. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Kate Moss, one of the world’s most famous models, has spoken of her anger at the condemnation she received after publication of photographs of her taking cocaine in 2005. She took the blame, she believes, for the widespread acceptability of drug-taking in her circle.

“I felt sick and was quite angry,” the British supermodel revealed on Sunday in a rare radio interview, “because everybody I knew took drugs. So for them to focus on me, and to try to take my daughter away, I thought was really hypocritical.”

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