Campbell: 'Mandela helps me with shame'

Naomi Campbell has apparently revealed that she turns to Nelson Mandela when she is consumed by shame.

The supermodel said that she now devotes a lot of her time to a children's charity that her "honorary grandfather" recommended.

"It was the first time I felt I was doing something useful," said Campbell, who is known for her fiery temper and battle with drugs.

"I don’t know why he reached out to me or what he sees in me. Every time I've made a mistake, he's told me to keep my head up and keep going. Sometimes it's hard because I feel so much shame. But a lot of it, I do for him."

The 39-year-old said that she has also found contentment living in Moscow with her Russian billionaire boyfriend Vladislav Doronin.