Kate Moss' 'Great Gatsby moment' came at the end of an all-night London bender when she called up an aristocrat mate and found herself being flown by helicopter to his country estate.
The multi-millionaire model phoned drinking pal Lord David Cholmondeley - now husband of Kate Middleton's Kate Middleton 'falls out with best friend and tells William to phase her out' - and suggested visiting his Norfolk pad.
She was wearing a Galliano dress and clutching a tiara when the chopper picked her up.
On the trip she supped champagne and smoked, she revealed in a rare interview to The Face magazine, The Sun reports.
She said: "Suddenly I thought, 'Oh my God, I am in The Great Gatsby'.
"It was the whole lifestyle. It doesn’t work (for Gatsby). It didn’t for me either. But it was great while I was doing it."
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Now a clean-living teetotaller, 45-year-old Moss is 13 years the Lord's junior.
The incident came at the peak of reformed party animal Moss' drink-fuelled shenanigans which culminated with spells in rehab.
Now in a relationship with British-German aristocrat Count Nikolai von Bismarck, Moss has been clean for two years.
She previously dated Johnny Depp, Libertines front man Pete Doherty and publisher Jefferson Hack.
Her old friend Lord Cholmondeley, 58, is today married to 35-year-old Rose Hanbury.
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The pair live very close to Sandringham and just 3.5 miles down the road from Anmer Hall which was gifted to William and Kate.
The couples were close and their children would play together but sources say Kate and Rose drifted apart despite William's best efforts to broker peace.
Scouted at the age of 14 in 1998, Moss was at one time earning £7million a year, was the first Brit to appear on the cover of Vogue 10 times and is now worth £62m.
Back when she was drinking all day and going on 36-hour benders, Moss told the paper's associate showbiz editor Clemmie Moodie, she would be referred to by various derogatory names.
She said: "'Kate's a smackhead', read one t-shirt. I was p***ed off because I never did heroin. I just thought, 'F***ing hell, I might as well!' "
