Czech model Paulina Porizkova has opened up about the rollercoaster of emotions she felt after her ex-husband passed away unexpectedly.
Ric Ocasek died on Sept. 15, 2019, two weeks after he’d undergone surgery, however, Porizkova insisted that the surgery was not the cause of his death.
In a recent interview with Page Six, the 57-year-old model revealed that she wanted to die after his death – despite the couple having separated a year earlier.
"It's not even so much that I thought about how to kill myself or when to kill myself – it was just that feeling of, 'I just don't know how to go on. I can't do this anymore. … I just want to go away. I can'twant bear waking up tomorrow morning, being the same person with the same feelings. I can't carry it anymore,'" she told the outlet.
The pair had been married for 28 years and shared two children, Jonathan, now 29, and Oliver, now 24, when they decided to split in 2018.
Following the Cars alum’s death, Porizkova discovered through her husband’s family that he’d cut her out of his will, claiming “[Porizkova] has abandoned me.”
"It was really, really hard because obviously, first of all, you're grieving a person that has been your whole life, the most important person in your life…" she said.
"There was so much pain just stacked up on top of each other… and then this betrayal was a lot."