Naomi Campbell kept diary during community service

[MaryJane]

NAOMI Campbell bared her soul in a diary she kept during her community service — and revealed she ENJOYED cleaning up.

The supermodel, forced to scrub a New York Sanitation Department garage after hitting a maid with a mobile, wrote: “I find solace in sweeping.”

She went on: “I have no other responsibility. I have no phone. I have the time to think. Just have, you know, peace.”

Mixing with co-workers gave her a sense of perspective. Naomi, 36, wrote: “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.”

London-born Naomi believes the five-day punishment in March helped her come to terms with addictions.

She wrote: “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.”

She admitted first dabbling with drugs at 23. She recalled: “I first sought treatment in 1999 and then went in and out of recovery.

“I’d think I had things under control, but then I would relapse. I never really looked into myself, deep below the surface. What I came to realise is that I had to surrender. I had to let something higher than me be in control of my destiny. You have to let yourself become vulnerable again.

“Some people can handle a drink or a line of cocaine, but I’ve finally come to realise that, for me, it’s all or nothing — and it has to be nothing. And my life has changed since.”

On her final day Naomi left the garage in a sequined silver evening gown. In the diary — to be published in US fashion magazine W — she wrote: “I’ve paid my debt to society. It’s just one day at a time. That’s how I’m going to live.”

The Sun Online - News: Confessions of a scrubber

[doriangray]

right on.

[buttmunch]

I'm placing bets that she'll be bashing some poor minion with the nearest utensil before the year is out.

[doriangray]

i think she's only allowed a land line with a very short cord now

[buttmunch]

But is it short enough to prevent her from strangling someone while beating them over the head with the reciever?

[doriangray]

hmmmm.....ok. she's only allowed to use pay phones.

[buttmunch]

But she could drag some poor minion into the phone booth with her and then who knows what could happen.

[KrisNine]

Have you taken a gander at the boots this woman wears? Those alone could be considered lethal weapons in her hands!

[buttmunch]

^^Good point. She could take an eye out with those things.