Kate Moss confesses cocaine use

updated 5:30 p.m. ET Sept. 19, 2005

LONDON - Supermodel Kate Moss acknowledged to the Hennes & Mauritz clothing chain that tabloid allegations she recently used cocaine are true, an H&M spokeswoman said.

Moss, who is to model one of H&M’s upcoming clothing lines, apologized for her drug use and promised in writing to abide by a company policy that models be “healthy, wholesome and sound,” spokeswoman Liv Asarnoj said.

H&M decided to keep Moss on, Asarnoj told The Associated Press in a phone interview from the company’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.

“We strongly disapprove of her action,” Asarnoj said Saturday. “We feel that this is very unfortunate.”

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Asarnoj said Moss had acknowledged the allegations of drug use were true. “That’s why she was so regretful,” Asarnoj said. “We are giving her a second chance.”

Noelle Doukas, who answered the phone at the Storm modeling agency in London, which represents Moss, 31, said no one there was available to comment on the allegations.

The Daily Mirror tabloid printed images from a video which it said showed the model doing five lines of cocaine in 40 minutes at a late-night music recording session.

Her lawyer Gerard Tyrrell did not return a message left at his office Saturday.

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