The fashion icon holds back tears as she recounts her tumultuous relationship with the former model agency boss, who has denied all allegations, in 'The Super Models' streaming now
In the third episode of Apple TV+'s new four-part documentary, The Super Models, Linda Evangelista explains that while her life certainly looked fun and fabulous at the height of her career in the early '90s, her relationship at the time couldn't have been a more polar-opposite experience.
Evangelista married Gérald Marie, the former head of Elite Model Management's Paris office who was once considered to be one of the most powerful men in fashion, in 1987, when she was just 22 years old and he was 37. Their marriage lasted five years over the course of her rise to megastardom, but the model confessed that it was also the most painful time of her life.
"It's easier said than done to leave an abusive relationship. I understand that concept because I lived it," Evangelista, now 58, claims in the documentary. "It wasn't a matter of just saying, 'I want a divorce, see ya.' It doesn't work that way."
She continues, "He knew not to touch my face, not to touch the money maker, ya know? I married him when I was 22 and I got out when I was 27, and he let me out as long as he got everything. But I was safe and I got my freedom."
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