Donatella Versace revealed that she was drug addicted for 18 years and it were her friends who helped her to go through this and check into a rehab.
The inheritress of Gianni Versace’s business, Donatella said she didn’t know she was addicted in the May issue of Vogue.
"Cocaine used to be a lot of fun . . . I had the best time of my life, she said. "You just feel more awake, more aware. Unfortunately, it doesn't continue like that. So I just kept doing it, every time I was in New York, in Los Angeles, mostly at parties," the 50-year-old designer revealed.
The fashion guru Donatella Versace only once refused of the use of drugs’ when her brother, the founder of the Versace design house Gianni was brutally killed in 1997. But the break didn’t last long.
"I stopped using cocaine because of what happened," Versace said. "I couldn't go late to work, because Gianni wasn't there. I had to organize my company, my family. My whole life changed completely. I didn't even think about doing it. But it wasn't as though I was going to stop my behavior forever. I wish I had."
Then she tried a new trick: she began mixing cocaine with Valium and Rohypnol.
"Yes, I enjoyed those people," Donatella said. "But if I wouldn't use the cocaine to have the fake happiness, I wouldn't be able to go to those people, because I'm so unhappy, so lonely, because I hate myself."
Last summer, at her daughter Allegra’s 18th birthday, her family and friends, including Sir Elton John persuaded Donatella to check into rehab. Versace boarded a plane to Arizona that night, and spent five weeks in rehabilitation facility.
Now she says: "I have all new habits. My day is totally different. "I'm very determined that I don't want to feel that way again."