Elle Macpherson has confessed to using cocaine during her modeling years.
The Australian supermodel, 60, speaks at length about her heartbreaking addiction and her journey to getting sober in her memoir. Elle: life, lessons and learning to trust yourself.
In one episode, she revealed how she often got blackout drunk and drank ‘vodka shots’ after putting her sons Cy, 21, and Flynn Busson, 26, to bed when they were younger.
Now, Elle admitted to previously using drugs during a shocking confession on Wednesday’s The Kyle and Jackie O Show.
Elle said she used cocaine to lose weight, a common side effect of drug abuse.
Radio host Kyle Sandilands told him: ‘I made the mistake, and I’m happy to admit it, of thinking I would lose weight by doing cocaine for ten years. Now, did I lose weight? No, I didn’t. I have the swelling.’
Elle Macpherson (pictured) has made a confession about her drug use after detailing the depth of her alcohol addiction.
In response, Elle admitted: ‘I’ve done that!’
Her comment came as she discussed why she controversially turned to holistic healing methods instead of chemotherapy after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017.
“It wasn’t like there was a one-size-fits-all solution, a golden nugget that you could take and say, ‘Okay, this is going to ensure superior well-being in the end,'” he said.
‘And I think so, and sometimes it’s a combination, you know, it’s not one or the other, maybe it’s a combination of things.
“People just have to go on a research journey and find out what interests them and get as much advice as possible.”
In her memoir, Elle, nicknamed ‘The Body’ at age 25, detailed the depths of her battle with addiction before giving up alcohol and becoming sober in 2003.
She shared how she would get blackout drunk taking ‘vodka shots’ after putting her sons Cy and Flynn, whom she shares with her ex Arpad ‘Arki’ Busson, to bed when they were children.
‘My life seemed incredible to everyone. “On the outside I was doing a wonderful job, but deep down I was really struggling,” he wrote in his book.
While discussing her wellness journey over the past few years, Elle revealed that she has used cocaine as a way to try to lose weight, a common side effect of drug abuse.
After giving birth to her youngest son, the Sports Illustrated Swimmer cover story recalled feeling consumed by the desire to drink a bottle of champagne she was given as a gift.
Despite receiving a warning from her two naturopaths that drinking too soon after giving birth would disrupt her hormones, Elle admitted that when she was left alone with Cy, the only thing she “could think about was that bottle of champagne in the ice bucket.”
He then turned to vodka to relax at night while desperately trying to maintain his perfect image in the public eye.
At the time, she was in a relationship with French financier Arki, who was often away during the week on business, leaving her alone to raise their two children.
Despite considering going to rehab, she told Arki she was fine and returned to work after Cy’s birth to prove that motherhood hadn’t slowed her down.
“I loved spending time with Arki and… I wanted to show him that I would be his partner in fun and business while also being the mother of his children,” she wrote.
‘I would go out drinking, party and get sick again. It became a constant repetition: I was in a horrible downward spiral.”
Elle also confessed to experiencing terrifying blackouts and turning to alcohol as a coping mechanism for her anxiety.
In her memoir, Elle revealed how she would get blackout drunk and start drinking ‘vodka shots’ after putting her sons Cy, 21, and Flynn Busson, 26, to bed when they were younger.
‘I often drank after putting my children to bed. I would sit alone and take shots of vodka and then write to-do lists and letters to my family. I did housework, listened to music until 11 at night, then I went to bed and passed out,’ he explained.
Those closest to Elle began to suspect that something was wrong and her Naturopaths (alternative practitioners who focus on healing) were among the first to suggest rehabilitation.
Once in rehab at a facility in Arizona, Elle recalled feeling “humiliated and angry” at being lumped in with those struggling with anorexia because of their thinness.
Ultimately, she said rehab was justified in classifying her in that group because she realized “she was controlling a little bit” of her diet.
While in rehab, she called herself ‘Mac’ to keep a low profile due to her concern about being recognized due to her fame.
Elle gave up alcohol after her stint in rehab in 2003 and recently celebrated 20 years of sobriety.
Overcoming her alcohol addiction led her to take a more holistic approach to her life and when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017.
Elle, who is now in remission, brought her passion for spirituality to her newly released memoir and shared a little-known detail about her audiobook.
Elle gave up alcohol after her stint in rehab in 2003 and has since taken a more holistic approach to her health, recently celebrating 20 years of sobriety.
On the Kyle and Jackie O Show, Elle revealed how her boyfriend, musician Doyle Bramhall II, recorded music for each chapter of her audiobook to “heal” listeners.
“We did the music for the audiobook, but now we’re in the middle of preparing a soundtrack for the audiobook with music he wrote,” he shared.
“Very unusual, but if anyone hasn’t had a chance to check it out, it’s really cool, he composed music that works with each chapter, for the beginning and the end of the chapter, and the whole thing is infused with healing music.
“It’s under your guitar or piano or whatever you’re playing, so when people hear it, they themselves get a benefit for the reader.”
In recent weeks, Elle has come under fire for “dangerously” promoting the holistic treatment she received during her battle with breast cancer.
Elle went against the advice of 32 doctors by refusing chemotherapy after undergoing a lumpectomy for HER2-positive estrogen receptor intraductal carcinoma.
Instead, she underwent eight months of intense therapy with doctors in Phoenix, Arizona, and in her memoir she detailed how she took a more holistic route.