Olivia Wilde says she never had a screaming match with Florence Pugh on the set of “Don’t Worry Darling,” pushing back on long-circulating reports about tension during production and her personal life at the time.
Olivia Wilde doesn’t sound like someone trying to outrun a headline anymore. She sounds like someone tired of it.
In an interview about her film “Don’t Worry Darling,” posted Wednesday, Wilde directly denied claims that she and Florence Pugh had a screaming match on set. She said, “I have never had a screaming match on my set. I was never not available on set. I wanted to be like, ‘None of this is true.’”
Wilde, who became a director after starring and producing, framed the reports as an exaggeration of what actually happened during production. “Don’t Worry Darling” was the focus of her conversation, and she positioned the reported on-set tension as something that was “overblown.”
She also revisited a period when criticism swirled around the film and around her personal life. Wilde said she regrets not addressing all the negative rumors at the time. She claimed that the movie studio and others involved told her to keep her mouth shut.
“I resent that, but it taught me it’s not the way I want to handle things.”
The denial lands after Vulture previously reported on the alleged blow-up between Wilde and Pugh. That earlier report. published in September 2022. said the two “had it out” after Wilde’s “frequent. unexplained absences.” In that same reporting. sources tied those absences to her romance with Harry Styles.
Florence Pugh has never addressed the alleged feud publicly.
Wilde’s latest comments place the spotlight back on a familiar clash in entertainment coverage: what’s said happened versus what those closest to the set insist did not.
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