NAOMI CAMPBELL SITS DOWN WITH OPRAH: TALKS ANGER/ABANDONMENT ISSUES, LIFE IN RUSSIA, STAYING FIT, AND MARRIED BOYFRIEND (VIDEO)

(Above: Naomi sits with Oprah to discuss her life, A-Z)

(Above: Naomi in tears listening to her mom speak --from the audience-- about abandoning her as a child)

We haven't seen the entire interview yet, but we borrowed pics, a video clip, and some of the dialogue from Oprah and Naomi's little talk, just for you. The video clip is interesting, so come back to it when you come home from work ;). Pop the trunk (keep reading!) for video and a partial transcription.

And, be sure to catch up to the near end when Oprah turns to Vlad, Naomi's man (front and center in the audience) and asks, "Aren't you married?" and "People don't get divorced in Russia?" Oprah's a fool for that one! Lol! It's good TV.


 (From Bossip.com)

Oprah’s cameras also followed Naomi around Moscow, where she lives with her billionaire boyfriend Vladimir Doronin. Watch the video below for Naomi’s little tour and make sure you watch all the way to the end where she addresses Vlad about being married:





Via Bossip.com

Oprah: Whether it’s a cab driver or somebody on a plane or your own housekeeper and you don’t get immediately what you want, you said you see red.
Naomi: Yes.
Oprah: And then what?
Naomi: Then I don’t see.
Oprah: You just act.
Naomi: I act out.

(By ‘act’ they mean hurl a phone or a fist at a muhfugga) After “acting” Naomi says she almost instantly regrets her actions.

“I feel remorseful. I feel ashamed. I feel for them,” she says. “[I think,] ‘What have I done to them?’ If I’ve hurt them.”
“I think it comes from a deeper place than that with me. It comes from another type of emotional disorder, because it’s not just, ‘I don’t get what I want. I throw,’” she says. “It comes from, I think, an abandonment issue, and it comes from also just trying to build up a family around me that’s not my immediate family. And if I feel a mistrust, then I really just…all my cards go down.”

So it turns out that all this anger and craziness comes from Naomi’s childhood abandonment issues? Okay.
Fortunately Naomi’s mom Valerie Morris was in Oprah’s audience ready to share the story of having Naomi at 19-years-old and entrusting her to someone else so she could pursue a career in ballet.

“I do feel that I abandoned her,” Valerie said on the show. “Looking back on that, you know, you sort of realize that material possessions are not the only thing that a child needs. But, sometimes, that child needs its biological mother.”

*Cue the violins* Naomi starts crying after her mother’s words…

“What are the tears for?” Oprah asks.
“I don’t know. Just my mom being here and her speaking about, you know, of course I understand the sacrifice she had to make,” she says. “So for me, I guess, I want to do better. I want to be a better person. I’m not proud of the things I’ve done in my life, and I’m striving to be a better person and to find peace.”

We’re all hoping Naomi can find her some peace — after all the safety of anyone who comes into contact with her is in danger until that happens…
Naomi also addressed the whole “blood diamond” issue which involves her refusal to speak about an alleged diamond gifted to her by Liberian warlord Charles Taylor in his current trial.

While staying at Nelson Mandela’s home in South Africa, Naomi says she met Taylor briefly. “[Taylor] wasn’t invited, and none of us knew who he was. He wasn’t part of our group,” she says. “But he did show up and we understood who he was after it was explained.”

Naomi says she didn’t want to answer questions about Taylor because she doesn’t want to be involved in his case. That one we can understand. We wouldn’t want to know how Liberian warlords deal with snitches either!