Paulina Porizkova is changing her tune.
The supermodel clarified the situation to Page Six after she claimed on her and fiancé Jeff Greenstein’s podcast that her landlord was trying to evict her from her New York City apartment.
“It’s just that my contract has expired,” Porizkova, 61, exclusively explained on Thursday. “My landlord wouldn’t grant me an extension, just a full year of retaliation.”
She argued that the landlord “might not be very nice to a really nice tenant,” but acknowledged that “he’s totally within his rights.”
Porizkova also took responsibility for “trying to make fun of the situation.”
The Czechoslovakian, who was young when she moved to Sweden to reunite with her parents who had fled as political refugees, detailed in an Instagram video that she and Greenstein “didn’t want to commit” to living in their Manhattan pad for another full year.
While Porizkova admitted that she felt like a “whining baby” for venting about “the problems of privileged people,” she took a moment to explain why moving in general was so “difficult” for her.
“I have a bit of PTSD about moving,” she said. “My first move was when I was 9 years old, when I moved from Czechoslovakia to Sweden with my grandmother, who had been my mother throughout my life, along with my mother and a father I didn’t know.”
“Change” was difficult, especially because she “didn’t know what was going on.”
The actress described this formative event as “actual trauma” and confessed that every subsequent move also felt like “trauma”, describing the feeling as “my life ending, and starting somewhere else”.
“It’s always been a good thing,” she admitted. “But of course it’s scary when you’re thrown off a cliff because you don’t know if you’ll land in a better place.”
Porizkova last moved into her current apartment six years ago.
Although the circumstances surrounding the move were also less than ideal, Porizkova said the house allowed her to “re-grow” herself and “rebuild” herself into the woman she is today.
So leaving her “safe zone” feels bittersweet, but with Greenstein, 63, by her side, she knows she’s “ready to leave.”
“And together we can absolutely face anything that comes our way,” she said, insisting that she is “totally fine” with successful TV writers, producers and directors.
The mother of two made sure to thank her fans and followers for their “sympathy,” “kindness,” and “generosity.”
Earlier this week, Porizkova made headlines after telling listeners of her and Greenstein’s “Twenty Good Summers” that she would be kicked out of her apartment “four days before the wedding, which is scheduled to take place this weekend in Italy.”
She said she had “begged and begged” her “ruthless landlord” to no avail, noting that “we are both over 60 and just trying to get a fresh start.”
But Porizkova admitted she could always stay at either her country house in upstate New York or the Greenstein mansion in Los Angeles.
The “Will & Grace” showrunner proposed to Porizkova in July 2025.
She was previously married to the late musician Ric Ocasek, with whom she has sons Jonathan Raven, 32, and Oliver Ocasek, 28.
