Trini Woodall has admitted she hasn’t ventured into the dating world yet since splitting from multi-millionaire businessman Charles Saatchi earlier this year – claiming she’s simply too ‘busy’ to get into, or even find, a new romance.
The 59-year-old fashion expert and beauty entrepreneur is believed to have split from Charles, now 80, earlier this year after a 10-year relationship.
Now, speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Trini has revealed that she ‘didn’t even think about’ meeting someone new because she was simply too busy expanding her successful beauty brand Trinny Londonwhile admitting that the ‘dating world’ is probably very different than when she was last looking for love.
“I think the dating world – which I’ve yet to get into because there’s been a lot going on in the last few months – is very different and a lot of people who may have dated before … dating are very different now,” she said. .
“So if you’re dating online or dating in person, there’s an issue of looks that can be different, so there’s a lot of things to think about,” she continued.
Trini Woodall admitted she hasn’t had time to date lately and thinks it’s important to “understand the relationship within ourselves.”
The 52-year-old fashion maven has been busy expanding her beauty empire and this year also released her book Fearless
Trini is believed to have split from her long-term partner Charles Sacchi earlier this year
When asked if she would ever turn to dating apps to find a man, Trini said: “I haven’t even thought about it, but I have some really good friends who have married people they met online.
“Where they met them and how they met them was irrelevant, it was the quality of the person they met.” So I think maybe it’s not about devaluing that initial level of how you start dating someone, it’s just who they are.’
However, Trini certainly seems to be in no rush to get into a new relationship and insists that it’s important to be happy on your own first.
“There’s a lot of feeling as women today… an evolution of how we feel about women and what completes us, as opposed to what’s a wonderful addition to our lives,” she explained.
“So I feel like the more we can understand the relationship within ourselves, the more we get to a place where we feel really happy with who we are as a person … and then everything else is additive.”
Trini continued, “But if we go into a relationship hoping that it will make us feel better about ourselves, that’s harder to achieve, so I think the most important part of the job is to do that work first.”
‘What can I do to just pick myself up? Because then you also give off energy that is different and maybe then you attract another person into your life.’
In March, it was first reported that Trina’s relationship with Charles had ended, with friends suggesting their 21-year age difference was to blame for them going their separate ways.
Trini certainly doesn’t seem to be in a rush to get into a new relationship and said it’s important to be happy on your own first
Trini and Charles, pictured in 2014, were in a relationship for 10 years starting in 2013.
Earlier this year, Trini revealed to podcaster Elizabeth Day: “I’ve been in a relationship for ten years, and whatever people choose to believe or read, I know that I was in love with the person I was in, and I had a good year in that relationship.” .
But I also know that I got to a stage where I knew I wasn’t happy in it. And that is a very difficult thing. Because the connection is becoming known.’
She added: “Strangely, I never thought, ‘I’m afraid of being alone.’ That’s something that didn’t occur to me at all. It was more like, ‘Do I feel completely independent in the relationship?’ And I did. I reached a stage where I felt alone.
“So in the end it was about, ‘Okay, I have the power to do what I want.’ So then I thought: “OK, I’ll move on”. And it was difficult, because every change is difficult.’
Before her relationship with Charles, Trini was married to businessman Johnny Elitchoff from 1999 to 2009 and gave birth to their daughter Lyla in 2003.
Johnny – who also had a son Zach from a previous relationship – took his own life in 2014 at the age of 55, a tragedy that Trini says she began to grieve in earnest years later, when her daughter Lyla left home.
Although he was known to have suffered a series of failed oil investments before his death, Trini said he was going through such turmoil that he convinced himself his children were better off without him – despite his hypervigilance over their well-being.
Speaking on the Diary of a CEO podcast, the beauty mogul shared: Johnny was hypervigilant around his children because he was in the Israeli army and was a paramedic.
The TV star was married to businessman Johnny Elitchoff from 1999 to 2009.
Johnny, with whom Trini shared daughter Lyla (seen), took his own life in 2014 – but the beauty mogul says she only began to process her grief when her child left home
“And from that he had post-traumatic stress disorder that was only diagnosed 20 years later.”
“But one of the things is the hypervigilance around his children, so he was always so concerned about their well-being.”
“So you have something in your brain about what you come to, when you’re so worried about your children, that you can convince yourself that the best thing for your children, whom you love deeply, is for you to be no longer in their lives?”
“And that’s something that’s so important that we can help people who end up in that situation — that they don’t get to that last part of that situation.”
“It is understanding what needs to be recognized, and it is very difficult to recognize.” I didn’t recognize it. There were a lot of details about it that could really upset me, things that were done wrong. But somehow you have to let go.
‘You have to go through these stages and not get stuck in something that is eating away at you.’
She added: “Any person who has had someone commit suicide will at some stage say ‘could I have done something to prevent it?’
Although the couple were divorced when Johnny died, Trini noted that the two still ‘talked on the phone every day’, adding that for a while she was unable to deal with her grief because her ex-spouse had ‘left a mess ‘ when he died, which she had to ‘deal with’.
“It’s probably strange that I moved in March and that’s the first time I remember Lyla leaving, and it was the first time in 35 years I’d been home alone. And I was grieving for Johnny, all those years later,” she said.
“I guess you need space. He died, it was a mess, then I started a business, I was living in a house I couldn’t afford to live in, I had to sell it for many reasons, one of them being this reason.
“There were so many types of fires I was dealing with – I was trying to get Lyla to be OK. So there were many years of that.’