Model found unconscious after 'suicide attempt'
Marks & Spencer's supermodel Noemie Lenoir has been found unconscious after allegedly trying to kill herself.
The girlfriend of former Chelsea football star Claude Makelele is believed to have taken a cocktail of drugs and alcohol at their Paris home on Sunday.
The Paris St Germain midfielder called emergency services after finding his girlfriend slumped unconscious on the floor, a police source said.
But 30-year-old Lenoir - also the face of campaigns for Next, Gap and Victoria's Secret - woke up minutes later and cancelled the ambulance, it was reported in France.
She then left the house alone in the suburb of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, and was found unconscious again several hours later by a passer-by on a forest footpath, reports said.
The model was rushed to hospital where was found to have consumed "large quantities" of drugs and alcohol, sources told French news agency AFP.
The agency said: "Her life is not in danger after this act which our sources have confirmed was an attempted suicide."
Lenoir was the face of a recent Marks & Spencer's advertising campaign alongside fellow models Twiggy and Laura Baily.
The French-born model has also starred in five French films including Asterix and Obelix and Rush Hour 3.
Makelele - who played for Chelsea from 2003 to 2008 - met Lenoir in 2004 and the couple have a five-year-old son together.
He retired from international football two years ago and this week rejected an offer from French national football coach Raymond Domenech to join France's World Cup squad.
Makelele will travel to South Africa this summer to work as a pundit for both the BBC and for Canal Plus.
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