Even people that I don’t think are right. I want to allow myself the space to have bad days, be sad, be mad, be loving and accepting of others. “I don’t want to talk it, I want to live it. “I want to be the person that I aspire to be,” she said. So Valletta remains focused on her health - and living a sober life. I’ll ruin everything.”Ī post shared by PORTER magazine on at 9:32am PST Left to my own devices, I guarantee you no matter how much I love life, my family, if I take a drink or any of my drugs of choice, I’ll be dead. She continued, “Only by being sober do I have any chance of survival. “So why would I be ashamed of being clean and saying: I have a disease that I can’t control?” “I didn’t have a problem when I was out using, if you saw me high or drunk,” said Valletta, who is also an actress (on TV’s Revenge as well as in films including Hitch and What Lies Beneath), of the years during which she was using. In an interview with Porter magazine, Valletta talked about going public with her addiction at a 2014 MindBodyGreen event, admitting of the speech she gave at the invite-only event, “I didn’t think anyone would see.” However, her powerful story - in which the Vogue cover star revealed she would show up at photo shoots drunk and high - went viral. She says if she wasn’t, she wouldn’t be alive. The 45-year-old supermodel, who soared to fame in the ‘90s alongside Kate Moss and Shalom Harlow, has been drug- and alcohol-free for 20-plus years. (Photo: Daniele Venturelli/Daniele Venturelli/WireImage )Īmber Valletta is speaking out about her addiction. That restlessness had brought them to Paris, and now it had brought them here, to see if they could pair up to escape their modeling accommodations.īy the end of the night, they decided to live together: their first grown-up apartment, even though they were barely grown-up.Model Amber Valletta, at the Fashion Awards in December, believes that if she didn't get sober 25 years ago, she wouldn't be alive. Its big-thumbed protagonist, Sissy Hankshaw, was looking to get out, something the girls knew a thing or two about.
They discovered a shared love of the author Tom Robbins, whose work includes the 1976 bookĮven Cowgirls Get the Blues. They swapped stories about their hometowns, where they grew up with strong-willed single moms: places with flat-voweled names-Oshawa, Ontario, and Tulsa, Oklahoma-that rhymed somehow with their own names, Shalom Harlow and Amber Valletta.
It was straight out of a Godard film, with a nearby ballet school whose rehearsals they could glimpse in the mirrors. Ap8:39 am ET One night in Paris in the early ’90s, two teenage girls, one brunette and one blond, perched at an outdoor table at a restaurant in the Marais. Nineties fashion icons Shalom Harlow, Carolyn Murphy and Amber Valletta, now in their 40s, are passing wisdom on to a new generation of models-and continuing to dazzle in their own right.
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