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Former “Project Runway” judge Tim Gunn revealed that he’s been celibate for 43 years because of his cheating ex.
“I had a very serious nine-year relationship in Washington, D.C., and I loved this person deeply and would have done anything for him. And I still remember the night that it all ended,'” Gunn, 72, said on the Feb. 19 episode of Chelsea Handler’s podcast, “Dear Chelsea.”
Gunn recalled that the former couple were in bed watching “M*A*S*H” when his ex told him, “I have no patience for you any longer. I want you to leave.’”
“I had my own apartment, but I had been living with him for years, and I left,” the TV personality said. “I drove to my apartment on Rock Creek Parkway, and I had to pull off because I was hyperventilating. I was beside myself with self flagellation and self pity, and it was awful.”
Gunn shared that his ex was also his coworker, so he knew they’d have to see each other again.
“One of the things that he told me that night was that he’d been sleeping with just about everything that walked by, and I had been loyal and faithful to him,” Gunn explained. “He was the only person I’d ever been with.”
The fashion guru continued, “The self pity then turned to completely unbridled anger because I thought he may have given me a death sentence. Of course, and I was tested every six months for ten years for HIV and thankfully I had a clean slate.
“But whenever I was even tempted to engage in something that could become serious with someone, all this would come back like Niagara Falls, and it would just take the desire away.”
Gunn admitted that becoming celibate and “someone someone who lives alone” was “a bit of an adjustment” for him at first, but now he “wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Elsewhere during the podcast episode, Gunn opened up about not being asked to be in the 2025 “Project Runway” reboot, calling the rejection “devastating at first.”
But “things happen for a reason,” Gunn noted, adding that he feels “extremely lucky to have had 19 seasons of the show, 16 with Heidi [Klum].”
Gunn and Klum, 52, now executive produce and star in the reality fashion series “Making the Cut” on Prime Video.
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