Paulina Porizkova faced a terrible loss when her husband of 30 years Ric Ocasek died in September 2019.
The pain only grew worse when she found out the Cars musician cut her out of his will as he instructed, ‘Paulina is not entitled to any elective share … because she has abandoned me.’
On Sunday the supermodel is appearing on CBS This Morning, which is her first TV interview since his passing. In a preview the blonde is heard saying that his cold move ‘made the grieving process really, really tricky.’
Opening up: Paulina Porizkova will appear on CBS This Morning on Sunday in her first TV interview since her husband Ric Ocasek died in 2019
A very hard time: The supermodel said she was ‘hurt’ after Ric cut her out of his will before he died; seen in April 2018. They had separated in 2017
The beauty told CBS anchor Anthony Mason, ‘I would love to be able to be sad and miss him, and not also feel this incredible hurt and betrayal.’
His will, which was seen by PageSix, read: ‘I have made no provision for my wife Paulina Porizkova as we are in the process of divorcing. Even if I should die before our divorce is final … Paulina is not entitled to any elective share … because she has abandoned me.’
They had not yet finalized their divorce after separating in 2017.
Power couple: In 1994 they were arm in arm at the 13th Annual Council of Fashion Designers of America awards. She was at the top of her modeling car and he was a thriving rock star
They held strong: Porizkova and Ocasek attend the launch of Living It Up! with Ali & Jack in New York City in 2003
She could not have really abandoned Ric because Paulina was the one who found Ric after he died. She was bringing him his morning coffee as he needed help after a recent surgery which he was recovering well from.
Porizkova told Mason finding her husband dead was ‘the worst moment of my life.’
After he died she said in a statement that she ‘touched his cheek to rouse him’ from sleep but then she discovered he was dead.
‘Ric was at home recuperating very well after surgery,’ she wrote in a statement shared to Instagram.
Now a single mom: With her sons Jonathan (L) and Oliver (R) at the screening Of Thor in 2011
‘Our two sons, Jonathan and Oliver, and I were making sure he was comfortable, ordering food and watching TV together.
‘I found him still asleep when bringing him his Sunday morning coffee.
‘I touched his cheek to rouse him. It was then I realized that during the night he had peacefully passed on. We appreciate the great outpouring of love. We, his family and friends, are completely and utterly devastated by his untimely and unexpected death and would appreciate the privacy to mourn in private.’
He died from hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
In December she shared that she was struggling.
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‘Peeps, I’m not good. Grief. Anger. No stable ground below me at the moment — insecurity in every pertinent and important area of my future,’ Porizkova wrote. ‘I’m breaking a little under the weight of it all.’
Also in the CBS interview Paulina talked about being an over-50 woman in the modeling business.
‘I actually bona fide lost a job because I did one of my, “Look at me. This is my face without makeup” [posts]. And I’ve never used Botox or fillers,’ Porizkova told Mason.
‘I used to go, “Oh, you know, I can’t believe anybody’s injecting themselves and changing the way they look.” And now I think, “No, you know, it’s really freaking hard to be a woman. And it’s really freaking hard to be a woman over 50. Because we really get dismissed from the table,”‘ she said.
‘We have, like, a weird zone between, you’re J-Lo looking fabulous, and then Betty White,’ she added. ‘And there’s kind of, like, a dead zone between the two. So, I’m trying to fill that dead zone.’
Sunday Morning on CBS airs on Sundays beginning at 9 a.m. ET, and is rebroadcast on Pop TV at 12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT.
She was the one who found his dead body: The beauty was bringing Ric his morning coffee when she realized he had passes; seen in 2013