14 DAY TRIAL // No matter how much she insists she’s a changed woman, more in control of her emotions, one thing that will probably never change about Naomi Campbell is her highly flammable temper. The model sat down recently to speak with ABC News and one question the interview brought up was whether she had received a blood diamond. Her response was not the one the reporter was prepared for.
In other words, after refusing a few times to answer the question, Naomi got up from her chair and simply stormed off the set. Before she walked out, though, she punched a camera one of the producers was holding, knocking it to the ground, which can be clearly seen in the video from ABC. It has already aired last night on the network, unedited and uncut, the media outlet informs.
“Allegations that fashion model Naomi Campbell was given a ‘blood diamond’ by the deposed African despot Charles Taylor have become center stage at Taylor’s trial for crimes against humanity and led to another one of Campbell’s infamous outbursts of anger. ‘I didn’t receive a diamond and I’m not going to speak about that,’ Campbell told ABC News before walking out of an interview and punching the camera in a producer’s hand when pressed on the details,” ABC writes.
“The Campbell interview will be included in reports on the case to be broadcast this evening [April 22] on World News with Diane Sawyer and Nightline. Prosecutors in the Hague for the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone say Campbell has refused their requests to be interviewed about the allegations that they say could help directly link Taylor, the former president of Liberia, to the possession of uncut diamonds used to fuel a campaign of terror in Sierra Leone between 1997 and 2001,” the media outlet further informs.
Campbell has also been cited to testify in the case but, admittedly, she’s showing herself to be extremely uncooperative, which has prompted the ABC reporter to try and get something out of her in front of the cameras. Clearly, the blood diamond topic is one that Naomi will not touch, no matter what. Please refer here for video of the incident, as it was caught by the same camera that got punched at the end.