Naomi Campbell Defends Kate Moss

Supermodel Naomi Campbell defended her colleague and friend Kate Moss, expressing her support for her facing the cocaine abuse allegations, while speaking at a press conference in Columbia.

Campbell, 35, invited in Bogotá, Columbia to judge a modeling competition for Elite agency, declared at a press conference: "Kate Moss is my friend ... I think it's like everybody is being bad to her."

Referring to the pictures with Kate snorting a line of cocaine from a CD cover, published by the Daily Mirror, the supermodel comments: "It's not the first time it has happened in the world ... it's really like a vendetta."

Naomi recently joined a United Nations campaign ran by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Colombia to raise awareness on human trafficking and declared she wants to help in "providing a safe environment for models and preventing exploitation of human beings".

Campbell told the young women who attended the contest to complete their education in case that this careers fail to take off and insisted that the modeling business cannot be blamed for models drug abuse and eating disorders.

"The modeling world attracts a large number of girls, particularly from the remote countryside, and it's important for the industry to help protect them," said Sandro Calvani, the UNODC chief in Colombia.

"These vulnerable girls will listen to stars like Naomi Campbell."