Turlington discusses her encounters with Brunel in a new interview. “I met Jean-Luc Brunel, who was the infamous French agent who was running Kain’s [modelling] agency in Paris at that time. And they were like partners, Ford’s [another modelling agency] and Karen’s. I would go to Paris, and the Fords would have it set up so that I would stay at Jean-Luc’s apartment.”
“Nothing happened, most of the time he wasn’t even really there,” she says. “I got angry just at looking back, and thinking like survival skills, like guilt, I can’t believe I’m ok. Nothing really surprises me about anybody. I feel like even people you know, you just don’t know what they’re capable of.”
Linda Evangelista in 2003
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Real story behind George Michael’s Freedom video
George Michael’s Freedom music video, which featured all four models lip-syncing, pushed them to new heights of fame. “We get this phone-call that George Michael wants us in his video,” says Campbell, in the documentary. “So we all talk.”
Evangelista was initially not interested in the opportunity — “because it wasn’t fashion,” she says — but finally they all agreed. “So who’s going to tell George?” Campbell says in the interview, and points to herself. “Basically, I’m in a nightclub in LA… on Sunset. And George is there, and he comes up to me and says, ‘What is it that you guys want?’ I said, ‘We want this much money and round-trip Concord tickets’. And he says, ‘That’s it?’ and I said, ‘That’s it’. And so it was confirmed.”
Linda Evangelista addresses that $10,000 a day quote
It was a line that would be used against the model for the rest of her life. “I will not get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day,” Evangelista infamously said. She recoils when discussing it. “I’m not the same person I was 30 years ago. But I just don’t want to be known for that, I don’t want to be known as the model that said that quote,” she says.
She is apologetic, saying: “I shouldn’t have said that. That quote, that quote makes me crazy. I don’t even know how to address it any more.” However, she believes it would be different if she were a man. “If a man said it, it’s acceptable. To be proud of what you command.”
Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista with Gianni Versace in 1996
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‘I was killing myself’ — Naomi Campbell on coping with grief, addiction, and rehab
“When [Gianni Versace] died, my grief became very bad,” says Campbell. “Grief has been a very strange thing in my life. I go into a shock and freak out when it actually happens, and then later is when I break. But I kept the sadness inside, I just dealt with it.”
She goes on to explain her battle with addiction. “When I started using, that was one of the things I tried to cover up. Grief. Addiction is such a bullshit thing. It really is. You think it’s going to heal that wound. It doesn’t — it can cause such huge fear and anxiety. So I got really angry.”
“I was killing myself,” she added. “For my mistakes, I’ve always owned up to them. I chose to go to rehab, it was one of the best and only things I could have done for myself at that time.
“It’s taken me many years to work on and deal with — and it does still come up sometimes. I just have the tools to deal with it now, when it comes up.”
‘I had a double mastectomy, but it came back’ — Linda Evangelista on her breast cancer struggle
Evangelista opens up about her struggles with health and reveals she has been fighting breast cancer for years.
She said in the documentary, “A little over three years ago, I was diagnosed. The decision was very easy to make, to have a double mastectomy, but it came back.”
She goes on to discuss how her disfigurements have altered her mental health. “I can celebrate a scar — but to be disfigured is not a trophy. I can’t see how anyone would want to dress me. I can’t. I can’t. Now, to lose my job that I loved so much and lose my livelihood. My heart is broken. I loved my job.”
The Super Models is available on Apple TV+ from September 20.
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