Naomi Campbell is so difficult to work with that a Russian cover girl who stars in the second season of Campbell’s show, “The Face,” says she is still recovering under psychiatric care.
Kira Dikhtyar, a gorgeous former gymnast, said Campbell was spiteful from the start, partly because Campbell’s Russian boyfriend Vlad Doronin had dumped her for one of the contestants on the show’s first season, former Miss China Luo Zilin.
“Naomi hates Russians,” Dikhtyar told me. “She’s an amazing woman, but it’s very hard to work with her. She put all her [negative] energy on me. After filming ended, they sent me to doctors. I’m still recovering. The network is still paying for my psychiatrist.”
The second season of the Oxygen show debuts March 5.
Dikhtyar, who is hoping to transition from modeling to television, is being talked about as the potential host of a Russian version of “The Face.” Campbell will not be pleased.
A friend of Dikhtyar’s told me, “No matter what Kira did, there was no way to please her.”
Campbell, who has anger-management issues, has a history of throwing cellphones and had to perform community service in 2007 after copping a plea to assaulting a maid who needed four stitches to close the gash in her head.
Said an Oxygen spokesperson: “These claims are false. Naomi and her fellow coaches are utmost professionals and judge the contestants on their ability as aspiring supermodels solely, and viewers will see this as ‘The Face’ unfolds.”