MULDER PARENTS BLAME DRUGS
BEN MULDER blames cocaine, lack of food and a failure to come to terms with the end of her career for sending his "beautiful, intelligent" former supermodel daughter Karen "into a black hole of despair".
Described by her father as "broken, emotionally and physically", Karen has been under sedation in the Montsouris hospital, Paris, for the past three months after suffering a nervous breakdown on the set of a French chat show last October. In front of a live audience, the 33-year-old Dutch model claimed that she and other girls had been used as sex slaves by senior figures in the police and French government. "I'm certain cocaine caused Karen's desperate situation," her father tells today's Daily Express. "When we visited her in Paris we could see for ourselves. Everywhere there were notebooks full of her tangled thoughts and mad ideas. She was accusing everyone and everything. It was awful to read them. She needs to remain in hospital because she is a danger to herself." Mulder adds that Karen's eating habits must have contributed to her fragile mental state. "It hasn't helped that she has never eaten the way she should do," he goes on. "Even as a child she used to throw the milk she was supposed to drink with her meal away in the plants." But Mulder, who currently commutes with his wife Marijke between their home in Holland and the hospital, hopes that Karen will make a full recovery. "What she's living through now is temporary," he said, explaining that she is no longer confined to bed and has taken up her childhood hobby of painting. "Slowly, she'll come to peace." (24 January 2002, AM)  Source:The Mirror