A Los Angeles model who says she dated Andrew Tate for 10 months and alleges in a lawsuit that the online influencer threatened and abused her said she feared for her life during a violent sexual encounter with him this month.

“I was scared to death,” Brianna Stern told NBC News on Friday. “So scared I was terrified that I might die.”

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Stern, in her first interview since filing the lawsuit Thursday, said…