CAMPBELL BARES SOUL IN COURT

THE model Naomi Campbell told the High Court yesterday of her long battle
against drug addiction, as she launched a potentially groundbreaking case
against The Mirror over claims that the newspaper invaded her privacy last
year.

Miss Campbell, 31, sneaked into court by a side door in an attempt to avoid
photographers, but once inside she was open and frank, agreeing that she
had had a problem with hard drugs and that she had a reputation for
tantrums. But she said that she felt "shocked, angry, betrayed and
violated" by photographs of her leaving a Narcotics Anonymous meeting and
an accompanying story in The Mirror last February.

Dressed in a grey trouser suit, Miss Campbell said that she had realised in
1997 that she had a drugs problem, but the article had left her feeling
anxious, depressed, and"for the first time in a long while I doubted my
resolve to go on."

Miss Campbell, who is suing the newspaper for breach of confidence, in
addition to invasion of privacy under new European human rights
legislation, also complained about another Mirror article, which said that
she was "about as effective as a chocolate soldier" as a campaigner. "I
took it as a racist slur," she said.

Desmond Browne, QC, for MGN Ltd, said that Miss Campbell had forfeited any
right to privacy about her drug-taking because it was an illegal activity.