Naomi Campbell: ‘I was a scapegoat’
Supermodel Naomi Campbell.
Naomi Campbell has moaned that she believes she was made a “scapegoat” at former Liberian president Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial. The former president is accused of using the conflict diamonds to fund the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone and Naomi was called to give evidence at the Hague last month after it was alleged Taylor had given her ‘blood diamonds’ in 1997. Following her appearance at the trial, Campbell was accused of being arrogant after she told the court being called to give evidence was “a big inconvenience” to her.
"What you need to understand is I was not on trial. I was forced - subpoenaed to testify - nothing to do with me,” Naomi told Sky News. "This trial has been going on for how many years? No-one cared to write about it. You bring Naomi Campbell to the stand the whole world knows. So as far as I was concerned, I was used as a scapegoat.
"I do not think what [Taylor] did to his people is correct. I did not condone that and I will never condone that,” she added. “But I do not see why I have to sit here and hear around everywhere I go in the world like this was like my trial. I was a witness. I told and remembered what I could to my ability - and it was 13 years ago.”
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