Music
14 Jul 10

CAPRICE ON DRUGS: 'In My Industry Just About Everyone Dabbles."

In the issue of Hot Press to be published on Thursday, July 15, TV's new Style Wars star Caprice talks frankly to Hot Press about her “goody-two-shoes” childhood, the perils of the modeling industry, the celebrity media, Courtney Love’s heroin habit, her lack of model friends and how she had to go to elaborate lengths to protect herself in Johannesburg.

“I look at modeling and the whole fame game as business," she admits. Interestingly, despite the fact that she has posed nude for Playboy, she describes page 3 modeling as "cheap and disgusting”.

The interview, conducted by Stuart Clark, also includes an exclusive photo shoot by Mark Nixon.

Regarding the celebrity-obsessed media, Caprice is particularly critical of the British press. “New York has this reputation for being overrun by paparazzi, but London is a thousand times worse,” she says. “I used to use this car service whose drivers I knew and happily chatted away to. One day I noticed they had a tape recorder in the front seat recording my conversation… I felt really violated by that."

The American model admits that in her schooldays she was “a little Miss Goody Two Shoes, a Straight ‘A’ student, captain of the cheerleaders, the one that Mom was so proud of.”
Admitting that she doesn’t hang out with other models, Caprice tells Hot Press, “I never had good friends who were models… I was also a lot smarter than the other girls.”

Caprice says she has never used heroin, but she sympathises with self-confessed heroin addict, Courney Love. "She’s not a bad person, she’s just a mess. I’ve never done drugs, and maybe I’m square because in my industry just about everyone dabbles,” Caprice admits. “These people are doing it because it gives them confidence, and when they stop doing it they become a mess, like Courtney.”

Read the full interview in the latest issue of Hot Press, which hits the newsstands on Thursday July 15.