Paulina Porizkova gave a tell-all interview on Sunday.
And soon after her segment aired on CBS This Morning she took to Instagram to share that she became ‘exhausted’ during filming of the sit-down.
During the segment the star talked about feeling betrayed by husband of 30 years Ric Ocasek of the Cars after he died last year. The singer had cut her out of his will.
It took a toll on her: Paulina Porizkova opened her heart about being betrayed by husband Ric Ocasek when she gave a tell-all interview to CBS This Morning on Sunday. And soon after the beauty said she was ‘exhausted’ by the whole experience
Paulina shared a screen grab from her interview.
‘CBS Sunday morning this morning,’ she began.
‘I was so exhausted after doing this interview- which is utterly unlike me- generally I like being in the spotlight. But thanks to Anthony Mason and producer Gabriel Falcon, I got through it, feeling completely wrung out but also safe. It’s so amazing to know I trusted the right people this time.
‘Side note: it’s flabbergasting to see yourself this naked. Photo of TV monitor by @annatonics.’
One of her hashtags read ‘older and better.’
The scene: The post before that was a shot CBS set up to roll in her home. It was shared before the interview aired. ‘My living room being prepared for my interview with the wonderful Anthony Mason , which will air tomorrow on CBS Sunday morning ( and happens to be the one program I watch religiously every Sunday while knitting and having my coffee)’
The post before that was a shot CBS set up to roll in her home. It was shared before the interview aired.
‘My living room being prepared for my interview with the wonderful Anthony Mason , which will air tomorrow on CBS Sunday morning ( and happens to be the one program I watch religiously every Sunday while knitting and having my coffee). Thanks Gabriel Falcon for producing this segment,’ wrote the star.
She faced a terrible loss when her husband of 30 years 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.’
She said this ‘made the grieving process really, really tricky.’
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 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.
Paulina was considered the It girl of her time, and she still does well as a model but thinks there are prejudices
‘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