The supermodel will spend five days sweeping up inside a sanitation department warehouse next week as punishment for hurling a mobile phone which hit her housekeeper on the head.

The star insisted she had no problem with the work and said a court-ordered anger management class she attended at the weekend had been a "great experience" that taught her how to walk away from situations that might provoke her temper.

"I’m from a Caribbean family," Naomi told the New York Daily News.

"My grandmother raised all of us. I had to wash my underwear and my socks after school; I had to clean the table; I had to Hoover."

She added: "I loved the class. The teacher was great. I love to learn, to learn new things - and I did.

"The teacher talked about prevention.

"Like in my case, if someone does something to me, I have to stop and ask myself, ’Is it worth the bother?’ I learned I just have to step away from the situation."

Naomi, 36, who also said she was thinking about motherhood, added that she doesn’t blame anybody else.

She added: "Blame deflects you from looking inside yourself. I take full responsibility for what I’ve done."

Naomi told the newspaper proceeds from the auction would go to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund.

Naomi happy with cleaning work - Mar 11 2007
Naomi Campbell has admitted that she’s "happy" to carry out her community service as a cleaner at the New York Sanitation Department.

Speaking to People magazine about her sentence, she reveals: "I never spoke about what I wouldn’t do and what I would do - I’m just doing what I’m told to do and that’s it."

The 36-year-old was ordered to mop floors for five days for throwing her mobile phone at her housekeeper.

It’s not the first time the supermodel has got into trouble for her temper, but she appears keen to move on, saying: "I’ll get on with my life and it’s over."

Naomi is also getting more charity minded. She tells the magazine that after upcoming New York Fashion Week, she intends to empty our her cupboards and sell her togs and give the money to a good cause.

"I have so much storage full of clothes," she admits. "It’s a waste. I could be helping, benefiting."

Naomi tells of drugs battle - Mar 1 2007
Naomi Campbell has spoken about her battle with cocaine addiction, revealing how she was first offered the drug at 24.

Five years later she ended up in rehab and now attends daily Narcotics Anonymous meetings wherever she is in the world in a bid to stay clean.

"I was at a concert in a European country and I was offered cocaine," the supermodel told GQ magazine. "It made me feel invincible. Like I could conquer the world.

"I was just completely over-confident, but it’s all a misconception because when you wake up the next day it’s all gone and you feel awful. And the more you take drugs, the more you want. And that’s how you become an addict."

But the 36-year-old was defiant when told her drug-taking was against the law.

"Yes, so go get the drug-dealers, not the takers. Drug-taking has been going on for centuries and everybody does it," she said.

The Streatham-born beauty also spoke frankly about close friend Kate Moss’s drug problems.

"She is hurting herself and when it’s exposed she doesn’t have the space or time to help herself because everyone is looking at her. It’s hard."

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