Paulina Porizkova says Ric Ocasek was ‘controlling’ throughout their marriage

Paulina Porizkova, who was married to late Cars rocker Ric Ocasek for 28 years, has claimed the musician used to control how she dressed and what she did.

Paulina Porizkova is getting candid about her marriage to Ric Ocasek.

The supermodel recently spoke to Amanda de Cadenet on her podcast The Conversations with Amanda de Cadenet, during which she alleged that the late Cars frontman controlled much of her life when they were together.

“He didn’t want me to do anything,” the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit veteran alleged, Fox News reports per Yahoo! Life.

“He didn’t want me to go anywhere. He wanted me to be within his circles at all times. I was his sole emotional provider for everything, and I confused that with love.”

Porizkova said her husband ‘wouldn’t let her do anything’ and ‘told her how to dress’. Picture: AP.

According to the outlet, their marriage began when she was 24 and he 45. The 56-year-old also claimed she felt more like a “treasured possession” than a person with the rocker during their union.

“It was a collective thing that just stuck with me forever, and I still feel that way, which, of course, is remarkable then that me, [a] self-proclaimed feminist, goes and marries a guy who tells her how to dress,” she alleged.

Ocasek died in 2018 from heart disease worsened by emphysema a year after he separated from Porizkova. They shared two sons, Jonathan and Oliver.

Porizkova married Ocasek when she was 24. Picture: Getty Images.

The star admitted in the podcast she was devastated to learn after his death that Ocasek had cut her out of his will.

“It’s a betrayal,” she said, as quoted by the outlet.

“It’s a betrayal of my trust and my love and everything I put into him for years and years and years. And I have no way of knowing what possessed him to do this.”

Earlier this month, Porizkova told StyleLikeU’s Defying Ageism video series that she struggled with depression, anxiety and anger following Ocasek’s death. She spent most of her days crying while going through menopause.

Supermodel Porizkova was left out of Ocasek’s will when he died in 2019. Picture: AP Photo.

“To me, my menopause is tied into the grief over my husband,” she said.

“I felt like somebody just peeled my skin off. Like this process of grieving and heartbreak and betrayal, it stripped me of my Paulina skin, the one that I used to know, the one that used to protect me. I don’t have anything that protects me anymore.”

Today, Porizkova said she is still a work in progress but is hopeful about what the future holds for her.

“As much as I embrace this body, and as much as I’m proud of who I am, I’m also broken,” she said. “And I’m assembling myself. So it’s not the greatest place to be yet. It will be, though. It will be pretty freaking awesome.”

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