Paulina Porizkova has revealed that she is still friends with her ‘wonderful’ ex-boyfriend Aaron Sorkin while reflecting on how he ‘helped heal’ her during their brief romance last year.
The model, 56, dated the screenwriter-director, 60, for roughly three months before she announced their breakup in an Instagram post in July 2021, writing, ‘I’m so grateful for his presence in my life. He helped heal me and reclaim myself.’
‘I was being absolutely honest! He helped heal me. He’s a wonderful, wonderful man who I am still friends with,’ Porizkova told People (the TV Show!), saying Sorkin helped boost her confidence when they were together.
Paulina Porizkova, 56, gushed about her ‘wonderful’ ex-boyfriend Aaron Sorkin, 60, during an interview with People (the TV Show!), saying they are still friends after their breakup last year
Porizkova and Sorkin dated for roughly three months and made their red-carpet debut at the Oscars in April 2021. The model later revealed the high-profile event was their second date
‘He was instrumental in me sort of regaining a sense of myself as a woman, so he was the one man — I love him for this… I asked him one day, “Am I intimidating?” and he said, “Hell yeah. Because you’re beautiful, you’re smart, and you’re tall.”
‘It was really helpful at the time in my life where I was otherwise feeling kind of crap about myself,’ she explained. ‘He made me feel rather wonderful about myself. We’re just two different feathers, and that’s why it couldn’t last.’
Porizkova has never explicitly revealed why their relationship came to an end, but she has alluded to them being too different.
‘There’s no bitterness. There were no betrayals. There were zero hard feelings. I don’t feel like that about everybody,’ she noted with a smirk.
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover star has been candid about the difficulties of dating at her age, and when asked about her romantic life, she said it was ‘crap.’
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit star said Sorkin helped boost her confidence when they were together by telling her she was ‘beautiful,’ ‘smart,’ and ‘tall’
‘I keep saying, look, when you’re in your 50s, my dating pool is a puddle — a muddy puddle,’ she added.
Sorkin was the first man Porizkova was publicly linked to following the death of her estranged husband, rocker Ric Ocasek, in September 2019.
She briefly dated Men in Black writer Ed Solomon in May 2019 while separated from Ocasek. They were together for several months before quietly breaking up.
Sorkin and Porizkova made their red carpet debut at the Academy Awards in April 2021, with the model dazzling in a shimmery gold dress.
She joked on Instagram that she wanted to ‘look like a female Oscar’ so her date ‘could still take one home’ if he didn’t win his category.
Later, in a New York Times profile, she revealed that Sorkin, whom she called a ‘great kisser,’ had invited her to the Oscars for their second date.
Porizkova announced their breakup in an Instagram post in July 2021, sharing a photo of them together with a broken heart emoji over it
Porizkova had nothing but praise for the Oscar-winning screenwriter, saying ‘there truly may be no better man,’ but she alluded to them being too different
Their surprise pairing made a huge splash at the ceremony held at Los Angeles’ Union Station, and Porizkova said she was nervous about making things official at such a huge event.
‘This is going to kind of take me off the market for a little bit,’ she told Sorkin, who won an Oscar for his 2009 Facebook biopic The Social Network.
‘OK,’ he replied.
When Porizkova announced their split on Instagram last summer, she posted a photo of her now-ex holding her scarf in his hand while they were out for a walk, adding a broken heart emoji to the image.
‘There truly may be no better man, no man who’s more genuinely “good.” ‘He’s brilliant and witty and funny and sexy,’ she gushed. ‘But it doesn’t matter how much we may wish we were birds of a feather — we’re still a duck and a goose.’
Porizkova went on to note that she would not be speaking of their breakup in the future out of respect for the Oscar-winning screenwriter.
In October, the model shot down speculation that Sorkin was the subject of a tearful Instagram post in which she opened up about struggling to ‘trust after being betrayed’
‘It’s so unfair because [Sorkin] just happened to be my public boyfriend, and he got himself into this hole,’ she told Andrew Goldman on the Los Angeles Times podcast, The Originals
‘As unfiltered as I usually am, this involves someone else’s privacy — so this is all I’ll ever say on the subject,’ she concluded.
In October, Porizkova shot down speculation that Sorkin was the subject of a tearful Instagram post in which she opened up about struggling to ‘trust after being betrayed’ by a man.
‘Oh, poor Aaron. No. Gosh, poor Aaron,’ she told Andrew Goldman on the Los Angeles Times podcast, The Originals. ‘It’s so unfair because he just happened to be my public boyfriend, and he got himself into this hole — and it’s really really not fair because he truly is, like, one of the greatest and nicest guys I’ve ever met.
‘There was a different man, and I couldn’t talk about it. … Don’t ask me the details because I cannot divulge them. Was I in love before I met Aaron? Yes.’
Last week, Porizkova paid a heartfelt tribute to her late husband on what would have been his 78th birthday, saying he is ‘forever loved.’
She marked the occasion on March 23 by sharing a photo of herself with The Cars frontman and their sons Jonathan and Oliver on their last family vacation together.
Sorkin was the first man Porizkova was publicly linked to following the death of her estranged husband, rocker Ric Ocasek, in September 2019
Porizkova and Ocasek have two sons together: Jonathan, 28, and Oliver, 23, They are pictured together in 2016
‘You’ll be forever missed. Forever imprinted on our hearts. You’d be 78 today, but say you were 39 “again.” We will celebrate you today. You’re forever loved,’ she captioned the image.
Porizkova concluded her post with the hashtags #ricocasek, #lastvacation, #happybirthday, and #trueloveneverdies.
The writer, who is currently working on a book of essays, has spoken candidly about her grief and anger after Ocasek unexpectedly died of cardiovascular disease while at home recovering from surgery on September 15, 2019.
Porizkova was the third of his three wives, and they were estranged and going through a divorce when she found him dead in their Manhattan townhouse. They had been married for 30 years.
The day after died, she learned he had cut her out of his will just weeks before, claiming she had ‘abandoned’ him. He left her without any money to live off of, including her own earnings.
Ocasek’s oldest sons from his first marriage to Constance Campbell, Chris and Adam Otcask (they use the original spelling of the family name), were also left out of his will.
‘I thought he was a really good man, complicated, but a good man. I thought more than anything that he loved me too,’ Porizkova said on The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet podcast.
Porizkova and Ocasek were going through a divorce when he died. The next day, she learned he had cut her out of his will, leaving her without any money, including her own earnings
Porizkova paid tribute to Ocasek last week on what would have been his 78th birthday sharing a photo of their last family vacation. ‘You’re forever loved,’ she wrote
‘Despite the fact that he didn’t necessarily want to be a husband anymore, I still thought he loved me the way I loved him. And I think that’s where I might have been wrong.’
Porizkova pointed out that they were going through a divorce at the time, and while she didn’t expect him to leave her everything, she thought she would have at least gotten half of his estate.
‘The fact that he wanted me to get nothing, that was shocking [and] heartbreaking,’ she said, adding: ‘It just completely blew up my world and everything I knew.
‘It’s a betrayal. 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.’
Ocasek changed his will three weeks before he died, and Porizkova believes his lawyers were the ones who influenced him to do so. She likes to think ‘he would have fixed it if he had lived.’
She later revealed she had reached a settlement with her late husband’s estate, saying she was to receive what was owed to her per New York state law, which was one-third of Ocasek’s assets.
‘I hope it wasn’t really his choice,’ she said of the will. ‘I hope that he went and did it without actually intending to hurt me, but I don’t know.’
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