I hope everyone watched Naomi Campbell’s epic appearance on Monday’s Oprah. It was almost as insane as the Rielle Hunter interview, only I get the feeling Oprah kind of likes Naomi Campbell, whereas Oprah thought Rielle was a crazy bitch (truth). I was proud that Oprah didn’t send softballs to Naomi the entire time, but Oprah seemed preoccupied with the whole question of “Why you so mad? What’s behind that anger?” Meanwhile, Naomi gave Oprah a look every now and then like “You want see what’s behind the anger, Oprah? It’s a bedazzled phone, and it’s coming straight for your head.”

No, I jest. Naomi did tell Oprah what it was like inside her head when she’s about to attack someone – Naomi told Oprah she “sees red” and “Then I don’t see. I act out. [Immediately afterwards] I feel remorseful. I feel ashamed. I feel for them… [I think,] ‘What have I done to them?’ If I’ve hurt them.” To her credit, Naomi did sound slightly genuine. Maybe she does feel bad after she beats someone – many abusers do. When pressed for further explanation of “why?”, Naomi told Oprah: “I think it comes from a deeper place than that. It comes from another type of emotional disorder, because it’s not just, ‘I don’t get what I want. I throw…It comes from, I think, an abandonment issue… 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.”

Naomi also talked about her cocaine addiction: “I never, ever had to have a dealer. It made you feel like insatiable, but at the end, it was a destroyer. It’s really a devil’s drug.” And her sobriety, telling Oprah she’s been sober from drugs for six years, and sober from alcohol for a year and a half.

Now, one of the more interesting parts was Naomi discussing the most recent incident of violence and insanity, when she was being interviewed by ABC News two weeks ago. When questioned by an ABC reporter about allegedly receiving a blood diamond from genocidal war criminal Charles Taylor, Naomi refused to answer certain questions, then walked out of the interview, slapping a camera on her way out. When Oprah asked her about the incident – not just the ABC interview, but the incident with Charles Taylor, Naomi’s response was very f-cked up. First, regarding the “slapping the camera” thing, Naomi said she never punched the camera, and “There definitely is sound effects… There were three cameras, and I went to walk out the door, and the other one came in the way. So I moved the first one out to get to the door, and there were two more.” But, Naomi won’t talk about the blood diamond she allegedly received because “I don’t want to put my family in danger.” Here’s more:

Naomi Campbell told Oprah Winfrey today that she fears for the safety of her family and that is why she has refused to cooperate with prosecutors who are trying a former African dictator for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Prosecutors allege that Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia, gave Campbell a blood diamond, the kind of gem Taylor is accused of using to buy guns for rebel groups in neighboring Sierra Leone who terrorized civilians and killed and maimed tens of thousands.

“I don’t want to be involved in this man’s case—he has done some terrible things and I don’t want to put my family in danger,” Campbell told Oprah and her millions of viewers during an episode of the talk show that will air Monday.

Oprah was attempting to ask Campbell about a dinner in South Africa that was attended by Mia Farrow, Campbell, other celebrities and then-South African president Nelson Mandela. Charles Taylor was also present just before the dinner. According to Farrow, Campbell told her the morning after the dinner that Taylor had sent some of his men to her room in the night to present her with a large uncut diamond.

Campbell told Oprah that she was a guest of Mandela at his home at the time of the September 1997 dinner, and that Charles Taylor had shown up unexpectedly.

“He wasn’t invited,” said Campbell. “He wasn’t part of our group, but he did show up. We understood that after it was explained to us.”

At New York Fashion Week in February, Campbell denied receiving a diamond from Taylor when asked about it by ABC News.

“I didn’t receive a diamond and I’m not going to speak about that, thank you very much. And I’m not here for that,” said Campbell.

She stormed out of the interview, slapping a producer’s camera.

Campbell claimed to Oprah that there was “a sound effect” added to the ABC News reports on the incident.

ABC News did not add any sound effects to the ABC News reports on the alleged blood diamond gift, which aired April 22 on both World News and Nightline.

[From ABC News]

Really? You’re going to play the “he could come after my family if I have to admit to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague that Charles Taylor gave me an uncut blood diamond” card? How played out! Naomi is so full of sh-t it’s not even funny. The fact that she wouldn’t even answer the question about whether or not she received a blood diamond destroys whatever genuine remorse she may have had about her abusive personality.

Also, do you know what I enjoyed? Naomi’s “boyfriend” was in the audience – he’s a Russian billionaire named Vladimir Doronin. He’s married, and has been for a long time, although he told Oprah, he “has been separated more than 10 years.” I enjoyed Oprah’s judgy voice when she was questioning “Vlad” about his marriage. I chuckled, I really did. I didn’t think Oprah was that ballsy.