Naomi Campbell Needs to Get a Clue
Why the temperamental model needs to either pick up a newspaper or go away for good.


Updated on May 18, 2011, 5:29 pm ET
By Kathryn H. Cusimano    Find in Celebrity    Related videos | articles | comments | share it

Naomi Campbell

We all know by now that Naomi Campbell was called to testify in former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial. Campbell received uncut diamonds as a gift from Taylor after the pair attended a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1997. Campbell avoided addressing the story for years, and tried unsuccessfully to stay out of the trial, a fact she openly admitted in court.

“I didn't really want to be here," Campbell said on the stand yesterday, after showing up to court late. "I just want to get this over with and get on with my life, this is a big inconvenience for me.”

Sorry to pull you out of your glamorous jet-set life for a few days, but you are a key witness in the case against a man who has destroyed thousands of lives (and that estimate is conservative). While president of Liberia, Taylor allegedly trained and even commanded rebel soldiers in neighboring Sierra Leone and gave them weapons in exchange for rough diamonds found in the country. Taylor’s actions are believed to have fueled Sierra Leone’s 10 year civil war.

So it’s nothing short of infuriating to hear Campbell complain about what an “inconvenience” this is for her. I can’t help but wonder how the former child soldiers feel.

At this point, Campbell is so willfully ignorant that she can’t even hear how absurd she sounds when describing the night she received the diamonds. Two unidentified men turned up at the door of her hotel room and handed her a gift in a small pouch. Since she is accustomed to receiving gifts from strangers, Campbell said, she didn’t open the pouch until the next morning.

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pogmathoin
#1. pogmathoin on 08/06/2010 - 4:45 pm (EDT)
Well, it must be nice to be able to live in that kind of 'protective' bubble. I'd would really like to believe her statement, but how could she have been that ignorant of world events when she was traveling all over the world.
Carolyn88
#2. Carolyn88 on 08/06/2010 - 7:28 pm (EDT)
I hate this woman
Julia1057
#3. Julia1057 on 08/06/2010 - 9:50 pm (EDT)
Sooooooo true....all of it!
xve
#4. xve on 08/08/2010 - 2:19 pm (EDT)
She is right! BFD Keep the diamond and make money.
booksorclothes
#5. booksorclothes on 08/08/2010 - 8:56 pm (EDT)
She's not stupid, don't underestimate her. She wouldn't have survived the grueling world of modeling and made millions of dollars if she was dumb. She just couldn't be bothered until she was subpoenaed to appear.
I am disgusted with her.