Supermodel Kate Moss said in an interview yesterday that until this year she had not walked down a catwalk sober for a decade.
Ms Moss (25), who in November was admitted for five weeks to a £350-a-day rehabilitation clinic in south-west London, told The Face magazine, the bible of British fashion, that she had lived on a diet of drugs and champagne.
Her drinking would often start in the early hours and she also frequently smoked cannabis with other models, she told the magazine.
"That's what you do. You just kind of have champagne. You always have champagne before shows. Always. Even at 10 in the morning.
"It got to the point one time when we said `We're not going out without any champagne'. Terrible."
Ms Moss, who now attends Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, said "things got out of control" on the international modelling circuit.
"In France and London we're allowed to smoke pot all day," she told the magazine. "After the first picture, skin up.
"You don't have to not like sex, drugs and Rock 'n Roll just because you stop. I'm changing. But I've always liked that lifestyle.
"I kind of lost the plot really there a little bit. It just got out of control."
Her drinking began when she was 12, she said, adding: "We'd go to people's houses and steal their mum's liquor on the way to school."