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Paulina Porizkova isn’t holding again. In an excerpt from her new e-book, No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, the 57-year-old former supermodel went deep right into a grief-stricken portion of her life, sharing particulars of how she dragged herself down a staircase to inform her eldest son about her husband Ric Ocasek‘s 2019 loss of life at age 75. “Your dad is dead,” she informed him as he was having espresso along with his girlfriend.
Paulina remembered making espresso for Ric on that September 15 in New York, and though they have been working by particulars of a divorce, they have been nonetheless residing collectively as he recovered from surgical procedure. “I thought it would be nice to bring him his coffee in bed,” she wrote partially, noting that The Cars frontman unusually hadn’t woken up by 11:00 AM, regardless of waking up early in latest days. Then, she discovered his lifeless physique. “I touched his face,” she wrote. “It was cold. My legs went numb and collapsed under me. I sat on the floor, gasping for breath.”
Paulina expounded on the horrifying expertise, finally discovering herself crawling down the steps, the place she discovered her son Jonathan Ocasek, then 26. “Unable to get up, I crawled down three flights of stairs on my belly and elbows,” Paulina continued within the memoir. “There were sounds issuing from me that I was only dimly aware of. All I knew was that I had to get to my sons. My older son, Jonathan, and his girlfriend were having their morning coffee at the kitchen table. The narrator in my split-screen brain was clear and firm: I could not let my son see me on the ground like this. ‘You have to stand up now,’ she said. I grabbed the railing on the last step, pushing myself into an upright position with all the strength in my arms and shoulders, holding on to the banister for dear life. Jonathan saw me, his eyes widening.” It was then that Paulina recalled she delivered the information to him. “‘Your dad is dead.’”
Paulina and Rick have been additionally dad and mom to son Oliver Ocasek, born in 1999. Paulina, who has been posting attractive bikini pictures to her social media accounts this previous 12 months, reportedly additionally dishes on sexual harassment she endured throughout her teen years as a mannequin. Additionally, Paulina shares particulars concerning the finish of her marriage to Ric, whom she claims within the e-book she had “not been touched by” for “years,” and alleges that he lower her out of his will, claiming she “abandoned” him.
Still, she took to Instagram on March 24 to pay tribute to him on what would have been his 78th birthday. “You’ll forever be missed,” she captioned a beautiful household pic of the duo with their sons.