Christie Brinkley reveals exact moment she learned her husband was cheating with teen girl

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Christie Brinkley is recounting the moment she found out her husband of eight years was cheating on her.

The 71-year-old supermodel, who appears on the cover of Social Life Magazine in honour of her memoir, Uptown Girl, described to the outlet, per USA Today, what it was like getting the news — while in public, right before she was set to give a speech.

“There were parts where I thought, ‘Please don’t cry,’” Brinkley recalled, when it came to reading her story out loud for the audiobook.

“I tried to keep [my voice] level, but [the publisher] let me be. Let my voice crack. Let it show.”

One emotional moment was discovering how her fourth husband, architect Peter Cook, was having an affair.

It was 2006 and she was set to give a graduation speech at a local high school in the Hamptons, when Brinkley was approached by a man she’d never seen before.

“Excuse me,” he said softly. “I need to tell you that arrogant husband of yours has been having an affair with my teenage daughter.”

“I was so stunned that I froze,” she wrote. “I asked him to repeat it.”

Brinkley wrote that she looked into the audience where Cook was sitting with her son, Jack.

“Jack’s face was frozen in panic. He felt it instantly. He knew something was very wrong,” she recalled.

According to Brinkley, she looked out into the crowd and saw “mouths agape,” reminding her of The Scream oil painting.

“They all knew,” she wrote, according to the outlet. “Maybe some judged. Maybe some didn’t. But in that suspended moment, she felt faint, exposed… like the floor might drop beneath her.”

The father of the 18-year-old was a police officer, Brinkley mentioned in the book.

“I know from Peter’s face that he was guilty,” she added.

“When your whole world falls apart and you realize in a heartbeat you’ve suddenly become the cliche middle-aged woman whose husband is having an affair with a much (much) younger woman, what do you do?”

Brinkley revealed she found solace and support from her friends, two of whom went to her house where the three searched the family computer and found a “creepy labyrinth of files and photos I never knew existed.”

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The Vacation actress described it as something out of Charlie’s Angels.

“I was good at guessing passwords, and soon enough, a panoply of frightening email exchanges, incriminating photos, and porn accounts populated the screen like fireworks,” Brinkley wrote.

“It was so insane that it was almost funny, and soon enough, the three of us were doubled over in laughter, as printouts of girls in X-rated poses began piling up on the floor faster than trash outside a greasy takeaway.”

Brinkley and Cook’s split was messy and the two battled in court for six years.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model wrote: “It was the most tortured relationship I’ve ever had.”