In a devastating indictment of the fashion industry, Lottie Moss claims she was drugged by key fashion professionals.
Lottie Moss claims that when she was 19, prominent fashion executives plied her with drugs and booze
The model, 25, who is now sober after finishing a treatment term, claims she never used drugs or alcohol before becoming a catwalk star but became addicted.
And the London-born socialite admits she never felt comfortable confiding in her half-sister Kate Moss about her problems, saying that the continual comparison with the supermodel was a constant burden throughout her career.
Lottie opened up about her drug problems for the first time, saying: ‘I started quite early on with using drugs and alcohol as a crutch, as a coping mechanism, which there is not a lack of in the fashion industry.
‘There were people in positions of power that were giving me drugs and alcohol when I was very young and so it didn’t seem bad to me.’
She continued: ‘When you have people around you who are enabling you, I am talking at high fashion events and people are in a penthouse suite, and its people that are working for a brand that is very well known and they’re sat there doing drugs with you as a 19-year-old.
‘That is so weird to me now… that should never happen in any industry.
‘The fact that no one said, ‘maybe we shouldn’t be enabling our client to do drugs. We should want her to be on her A game and doing her best, wake up in the morning and do a gym class, instead it was lots of alcohol’, and it goes hand in hand.’
Lottie acknowledges that her drug use got so frequent that she was using ‘five times a week,’ owing to an unsatisfactory relationship with an older guy.
She explained: ‘I did weed and things like that when I was 15 but moving to London and being around a lot of older people, my boyfriend at the time was 27 and the people we were hanging around with did a lot of drugs.
‘I started to realise quite early on that my relationship wasn’t going very well with him and he was unfaithful, and he was also using drugs as a coping mechanism. I saw that and I instilled it into my life because it was the only time, I felt that I could be free.
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‘When I was working constantly, I had to be on my A game so when I came back to London and did drugs, I was like ‘yes’ because it felt like freedom to me. It felt like my escape, but it quickly became something that I used because I was not happy.
‘I have been honest with myself back then that I was using it too much. I don’t feel that I had an addiction to it… I just needed to get away. It numbed every single feeling that I had like anger, upset, loneliness, it became like my friend.’