Naomi Campbell Responds to Alleged Driver Assualt

Supermodel Naomi Campbell, seen here at Fashion Week 2010, spoke out on Thursday for the first time since she was accuse...

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By Olivia Scheck

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Supermodel Naomi Campbell attempted to clear her name on Thursday, issuing her first statement since her driver told police that she slammed his face into a steering wheel after hitting him with her cell phone, the Daily News reported. 

"I have worked very hard on correcting my previous wrongdoings and I will not be held hostage to my past," Campbell wrote in a statement, quoted by the News.

Campbell, who is alleged to have fled the scene, was on the lam until Wednesday, when driver Miodrag Mejdina, 27, dropped the charges.

"I got angry and overreacted," Mejdina said in a press release, the News reported. "It was a misunderstanding and I regret involving the police.”

Asked by the paper whether Mejdina had been paid to drop the charges, Mejdina’s lawyer Earl Ward said simply, "The statement speaks for itself. We have no further comment."