A source revealed: "Kate feels Buddhism will get her through the dark times.

"She's been reading up about karma and is fascinated by the idea that your behaviour comes back on you."

Kate - who lost several lucrative modelling contracts and checked into rehab after shocking images of her snorting cocaine were printed last year - is even thinking about volunteering to improve her karma.

The source told Britain's Grazia magazine: "She's thinking about doing charity work to get good karma in her life."