Why Heidi Klum Declined to Participate in Hulu’s Victoria’s Secret Docuseries

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Heidi Klum may have been one of the most famous models associated with Victoria’s Secret, but she says she turned down an invite to be interviewed for Hulu’s “Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons.” “They asked me if I wanted to be part of it,” Klum tells me on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. “And I was like, ‘If you’re looking for a negative story, you’re barking up the wrong tree because I had the most wonderful time there.’” Matt Tyrnauer’s three-episode series paints a picture of Victoria’s Secret as a company that was plagued by wide-spread misogyny and sexual misconduct.

It also explores former CEO Les Wexner’s disturbing ties to the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Klum says she watched the first episode but “hardly anyone I knew was on that show,” she says. “I didn’t know who all of those people were.” She describes her experience with the lingerie brand as “the best time ever.” Of the numerous damning allegations presented in the series, Klum says, “Hearing all these stories pop up to me is mind-blowing when they accuse different people of different things, and I’m like, ‘My gosh, did this really happen?’ I don’t know.

So I was always waiting to get more insight, but… it never came. So I never continued watching it.” I caught up with Klum ahead of the premiere of the new season of “Making the Cut.” She calls her and co-host Tim Gunn’s relationship — which started with “Project Runway” — “amazing.” “When we were thinking about doing [‘Project Runway’], we didn’t even have a spot [for a] mentor like Tim, but then when we met, we were like, ‘This guy’s amazing.