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Linda Evangelista is done dating: ‘I don’t want to sleep with anybody’ — let alone ‘hear somebody breathing’

She’s swiping left on dating.

Supermodel Linda Evangelista revealed Sunday that she is no longer “interested” in dating during an interview with the Sunday Times.

“Not interested. I don’t want to sleep with anybody anymore. I don’t want to hear somebody breathing,” Evangelista, 58, told the outlet.

According to the Canadian model, the last time she attempted to date was sometime in 2015, before her botched CoolSculpting procedure which she said left her “brutally disfigured.”

Evangelista, who recently appeared in the Apple TV+ documentary “The Super Models,” was married to former modeling exec Gérald Marie, 73, from 1987 to 1993. She previously claimed that her ex-husband abused her throughout their six-year marriage.

“I learned that maybe I was in the wrong relationship,” Evangelista said in the docuseries, which also starred Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell.

Peter Morton and Linda Evangelista attend the 2013 National Resources Defense Council Game Changer Awards at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York City on March 14, 2013. FilmMagic
The icon said that Gérald Marie (left), 73, “knew not to touch my face,” stating that it was her “moneymaker.” Ron Galella Collection via Getty

“It’s easier said than done to leave an abusive relationship,” said Evangelista. “I understand that concept, because I lived it. If it was just a matter of saying, ‘I want a divorce, see ya’ … it doesn’t work that way.”

She went on to allege that Marie “knew not to touch my face,” stating that it was her “moneymaker.”

“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,” she continued. “But I was safe, and I got my freedom.”

Linda Evangelista with Kyle MacLachlan at Irving Plaza, New York City, circa 1995. Rose Hartman/Getty Images
According to Evangelista, the accusations leveled against Marie by other models made her feel safe enough to reveal her own truth. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

In 2020, Marie faced other accusations of rape from former models claiming that he assaulted them during the 1980s and 1990s. French prosecutors, however, closed the investigation due to the statute of limitations having expired.

 Evangelista said the allegations made her feel safe enough to come forward with her own claims.

“Thanks to the power of all these women coming forward, God bless all of them, it gave me the courage now to speak,” she noted, adding that the allegations “broke her heart.”

That same year, Evangelista told the Guardian that she knew “nothing of these sexual allegations against him, so I was unable to help these women” but believes “that they are telling the truth.”

Elsewhere in the interview with the Sunday Times, Evangelista said that her current goal is “to stay alive.” Images Press/IMAGES/Getty Images
According to the model, she has lived with “one foot in the grave” ever since her breast cancer — which she was initially diagnosed with in 2018 — had returned. George Pimentel/Shutterstock

Additionally, Marie was accused of trafficking women and for allegedly giving models cocaine to keep them thin. Attorneys for Marie told Apple TV+ that he “has never committed the slightest act of violence.”

Marie’s attorneys also told Mail Online that “Gérald Marie firmly objects to the defamatory and false allegations made against him. He refuses to participate in this dishonest media controversy.”

Evangelista, meanwhile, went on to date actor Kyle MacLachlan. She also briefly dated French businessman François-Henri Pinault, with whom she shares 17-year-old son Augustin.

Elsewhere in the interview with the Sunday Times, Evangelista said that her current goal is “to stay alive.”

According to the model, she has lived with “one foot in the grave” ever since her breast cancer — which she was initially diagnosed with in 2018 — had returned.

“When I see someone and say, ‘Oh, I haven’t seen you in so long, let’s have dinner together,’ now I really mean it,” she said.

“The Super Models,” which details the rise of iconic models Crawford, Campbell, Christy Turlington and Evangelista, is currently streaming on Apple TV+.