Posted on 10/07/2005 10:13:38 PM PDT by WillamShakespeare
Robbie Williams defends Kate Moss over cocaine scandal
BERLIN (AFP) - British pop star Robbie Williams defended his compatriot Kate Moss over recent allegations that the model took cocaine, saying she "never hurt or harmed anyone" and that "what she does in private should remain private".
"She is an absolute icon. She does nothing wrong," Williams told a press conference after arriving in Berlin ahead of a concert on Sunday night to promote his new album "Intensive Care".
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first off, who cares what robbie thinks, second who cares if Kate did/does coke?, honestly now :D
translated:
If I say nice things about her, maybe I'll get to shag her in some London nightclub restroom when she drops off the wagon again.
So, you're one of those Goth fags. Just kidding, I used to be in Goth, but primarily Industrial music in my college days, even had a college radio show. But I wouldn't really care to know what the personal views of members of Front Line Assembly or KMFDM really were.
I agree. The difference is that they're apparently not volunteering the information. Robbie Williams suffers from the common delusion among celebrities that just because he thinks something, it's somehow necessary for it to be heard.
Regards, Ivan
How the heck is she an "icon"? What a retarded use of the English language.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=icon
http://www.smith.edu/educ/student%20work/identity/kate%20moss.jpg
http://www.warande.net/~signe/images/km000170.jpg
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Mll/French/Projects/French92/v0pmsb87.jpg
http://www.celebstation.org/models/kate_moss/moss82.jpg
http://www.virgin.net/music/picturegalleries/glastonbury2005/pix/08_main.jpg
Probably wants to get her in bed again.
http://www.outofrange.net/blogarchive/archives/harrykatemoss.jpg
http://www.icircle.com/images/library/asis722200533023PM.jpg
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In 1998 Kate told a Channel 4 documentary: "I don't do any Class A -especially not heroin - after seeing what it does to people.
"I don't think you have to be in this industry to see that, you just have to look around you."
In the same year, Kate spent six weeks in The Priory rehab clinic. She told the Mirror at the time: "I've been doing a lot of work and too much partying. I wasn't happy with the way my life was going. So I decided to take a step back and assess my life and future.
"I want to be totally responsible for myself. And this is the place where I can get the peace and quiet I need to start the process."
She admitted later that she had spent much of the 90s drunk, and also revealed that she had problems with drugs. She never admitted using cocaine or other Class As.
"In fashion, excess is not for creative purposes, whatever people may say," she said. "It's about escapism. You just have to get out of it to deal with it. I think that's what a lot of people in fashion that I know do it for. I know that's why I did it."
Two years ago Kate confessed for the first time that her drug habits had once left her in the depths of despair but claimed to have cleaned up her act.
She said: "Dabbling is fine but when I was bang on it, that wasn't a nice time. I was miserable anyway.
"Drugs enhanced all the misery and I got into this spiral. I still drink but I don't do drugs."
Mon Oct 3, 6:21 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Model Kate Moss has been shown in a television documentary taking what the makers say is cocaine, an incident which has cost her valuable advertising contracts.
Sky One's "Kate Moss: Fashion Victim?," broadcast Monday evening, featured video footage of Moss apparently snorting cocaine in the company of her self-confessed heroin addict boyfriend, rock star Pete Doherty.
Moss has been embroiled in scandal since the Daily Mirror last month printed grainy pictures of the alleged drug-taking.
Retailer Burberry and Swedish-based fashion house Hennes & Mauritz responded by cutting their contracts with the 31-year-old model, and France's Chanel said it would not renew her contract when it expires next month.
Moss, who has a three-year-old daughter, was discovered by a modeling agency as a 14-year-old schoolgirl, and her waifish good looks have graced the covers of countless magazines.
Although her statement made no specific reference to the Mirror report, she said she took full responsibility for her actions.
"I also accept that there are various personal issues that I need to address and have started taking the difficult, yet necessary, steps to resolve them," she said.
Her agent Sarah Doukas said Moss was "gutted, absolutely devastated," when she heard about the Mirror report.
Doukas said her client had left Britain for the time being, and that despite recent career setbacks, she was about to sign a new deal with an unnamed perfume company.
Media reports say Moss has checked in to the Meadows rehabilitation clinic in Wickenburg, Arizona.
by Sarah Hall
Sep 19, 2005, 3:30 PM PT
Hell hath no fury like a tabloid scorned.
Just two months ago, Kate Moss won a substantial settlement from London's Daily Mirror after it published a story alleging that she had collapsed in a cocaine-fueled coma in Spain in 2001.
Last week, the Mirror struck back, publishing images of the supermodel doing a sizable amount of cocaine at a recent late-night recording session for her boyfriend, Pete Doherty's band, Babyshambles.
The tabloid claimed it took the images two weeks ago during an undercover investigation into Moss' activities.
"As the white powder induces a sudden rush to her brain, she rocks back in her seat and laughs hysterically. The coke is kicking in," the paper reported.
"Within seconds she leans forward and again sniffs into a tightly rolled-up £5 note, hoovering up every last grain of the Class A drug."
Moss, who has a 2-year-old daughter, Lila Grace, with ex-boyfriend Jefferson Hack, has reportedly agreed to enter rehab in order to deal with her drug problem--in part because she fears losing custody of her child.
She previously checked herself into rehab in 1998, complaining of exhaustion, but she later admitted she'd been hitting the bottle and getting high before hopping on the catwalk. However, she denied ever indulging in harder substances.
"In fashion, excess is not for creative purposes, whatever people may say," she said. "It's about escapism. You just have to get out of it to deal with it. I think that's what a lot of people in fashion that I know do it for. I know that's why I did it."
Hmmm...who knew the "fashion" was so grueling? I guess the catwalk is really a deathmarch...the agony of the 25.3 seconds the model spends prancing down it, bright lights flashing in your eyes! And the designer, he's backstage, hundreds of pinpricks in his hands..
Not to get picky, but "Icon" is Greek for "Picture". Its common use somes down from the Byzantine time when "Iconoclasts" or "picture destroyers" began an assault on the practice of religious pictures in churches.
Aren't I tedious? ;-)
I am by no means telling you what music you should listen to, all I`m saying if he is making good music, it isn`t from his brain. He may sing and perform it, but somebody else is writing and producing it. That is the name of the game today, one person writes and produces it and the morons perform it which is why you get the likes of Paris Hilton, Ashlee Simpson, putting out an album, they are fake musicians. It`s like the Monkees and the Partridge family from the `60`s and `70`s, even though I loved their music (I still do), they were really just props, stand ins for the real musicians, although I will say they at least had a little more musicianship than the karaoke type singers of today. Today nobody plays anything, not even a kazoo, it`s all karaoke singers. Robbie Williams is an actor who found acting as a musician more profitable and if you like his music, all I was saying was it is not "his" music. It is someone elses behind the scenes.
I wonder if that paper can get that court settlement thrown out now. They must have had crappy lawyers if they could come so easily upon a video of her snorting yet still lose that suit.
Hoovering? LOL!
Deja vu, I've seen a similar sentiment expressed on the Miers threads...
Perhaps Kate Moss could get this compatriot to defend her ...
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/54933.htm
GEORGE POWDERS NOSE: COPS
By LARRY CELONA and LUKAS I. ALPERT
October 8, 2005 -- Cross-dressing Culture Club icon Boy George was arrested yesterday after he called the cops to his SoHo apartment on a false burglary call — and they found bags of cocaine, police said.
Cops came to George's sixth-floor apartment on Centre Street after receiving a 911 call from him at around 3:15 a.m. reporting that he'd been robbed, police said.
Officers were greeted by the 44-year-old singer and a woman companion. Boy George appeared high, cops said, and asked them, "What's up?"
They found no evidence of a break-in, but did spot a mound of cocaine on a table, police said.
The woman then told the officers there was "a lot more" cocaine in a bedroom in George's apartment, sources said.
The officers did not search the room immediately, instead waiting for a warrant — and eventually found 13 baggies containing the drugs, they said.
The openly gay and wildly flamboyant '80s songbird was hauled down to the 5th Precinct station house for booking.
He was arraigned early today on a charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance — more than an eighth of an ounce of cocaine — and filing a false report.
The bloated and pale '80s star — sporting a star tattoo on top of his bald head and wearing a T-shirt with the name of the punk band "Misfits" — was released on his own recognizance. He dodged reporters by ducking into a black car.
His lawyer, Lou Freeman, said George called police because he "thought he had been robbed," adding, "A man who has something to hide does not call police."
When asked about the drugs found in the apartment, Freeman did not deny the charge — but did deny that the narcotics belonged to the singer.
"It was a small amount of drugs," Freeman said. "He does not know where it came from. He's had a lot of people in his house."
(snip)
Which is amazing when you take in to account how often Miers snorts crack.
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