Model Paulina Porizkova was married only once, to “The Cars” singer Ric Ocasek, from 1989 until his death in 2019.
Eventually, the two had separated and were in the process of divorcing at the time of his sudden death.
On Thursday, Paulina shared a clip of her late husband on Instagram, discussing the first time she fell in love with him on TV. After getting a lot of questions from fans, she decided to make a new post to clarify their relationship.
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Paulina Porizkova Remembers The ‘First Time’ She Fell In Love
In a touching Instagram post on Thursday, Paulina shared her husband’s latest video. “This is when I fell in love,” he recalls. “It was 1984. I had just moved into a new apartment (after escaping a house fire that cost me all my possessions) and my new apartment was empty but for a bed, my cat and my new MTV.”
“It’s late at night. This video came up, and I was – blown away,” he wrote. “It was his eyes that stopped me first. Turquoise. Like the shallows of the Caribbean sea. But it was the smile, the little smile that made me flinch. He doesn’t look like he smiles much. He looked like an otherworldly creature, an alien, a foreboding angel, all angles and long limbs, like he had secret black wings folded under his raincoat.”
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“But that smile, that little bit of an almost apologetic smile, the unsure man’s smile, that pierced me. I sat glued to the TV, hoping for more,” he added. “Little did I know then, that just a few months later, that smile would be mine. It will be for me. It will be mine for thirty years.”
She then contacted Ric directly, adding, “I still miss you. I still cry when I think of you. I still cry when I talk about you. I hope I always will.”
While some followers appreciated her vulnerable caption, others were confused. “But he didn’t appreciate you in his last years? And you really appreciate it,” commented one user. Paulina replied, “Things change. Love is not.”
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Paulina Remembers The Last Time She Appeared In Public As ‘His Wife’
Instagram | Paulina Porizkova
On Friday, Paulina followed up her original post with a new Instagram photo showing her looking into the camera with a sad expression.
“After yesterday’s post, I thought I’d clear up some misconceptions,” he wrote. “Ric and I had been separated for two years at the time of his death. We lived separate lives while still living together.”
“At the Rock&Roll hall of fame, I appeared as his wife for the last time. I know how much it means to him, and I want to give him the perfect weekend as a parting gift,” he wrote, adding, “He’s the only artist who doesn’t thank his wife. We had already been separated for a year by then.”
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“I thought we were sailing through the end of our marriage with all the love we had for each other. It turns out – after his death – we thought about it very differently,” he continued. “But he’s not here to deny or confirm, so this is just my view .”
“I was deeply hurt by his actions that came to light after his death – in addition to being thrown into an unexpected and horrible grief,” she wrote. “All of us who love him are still in the process of gathering ourselves from under his shadow, whether it’s a soft cooling shelter from the sun, or a cool dark place.”
“I cannot be pitied as a chaste wife- or reviled as a woman who leaves,” she added. “We all make mistakes. I am lucky to live and learn and become a better person. My husband is not so lucky.”
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“For me the moral of the story is to love as much and as hard as possible, so when you have to leave this world, you will leave your loved ones with thousands of loving memories,” he concluded, reminding his fans, “I wrote about all this in my book. But it’s not a story. I am good at keeping other people’s secrets. I am uncensored only when it comes to my own thoughts and feelings.”
His new book, “No Filter,” hits shelves this November.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
