Olivia Wilde pinpoints March 10 moment ending relationship

Olivia Wilde says she knew her relationship with Jason Sudeikis was over on March 10, 2020—her 36th birthday—after a tense exchange during the drive home. She also revisited the custody-papers episode in 2022, calling it “incredibly traumatizing,” and describe

The exact moment Olivia Wilde realized her romance with Jason Sudeikis had ended wasn’t a breakup speech or a dramatic argument. It was a question—asked during a car ride home—that landed like a verdict.

On June 17. while appearing on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. Wilde. 42. described the day she began to understand “we realized it was over.” She pointed to March 10. 2020. her 36th birthday. Dating from 2011 to 2020. Wilde said the end of a relationship isn’t “an overnight process. ” but she could pinpoint a shift.

“Jason and I had been having a rough time of it for a while,” Wilde said. “We had a real bumpy, bumpy ride.” She recalled that after her birthday celebration with friends, she and Sudeikis were driving home when she asked if he’d gotten her a birthday present.

“I said, ‘Did you get me a birthday present?’” Wilde continued. “And he said, ‘What would I get you, Olivia? I don’t know you.’ And he wasn’t wrong. We didn’t know each other anymore.”

Wilde said the relationship reached a point where they stopped engaging in the small acts of closeness that come from genuinely knowing each other—turning curiosity into something colder. “You can get to a place in a relationship where you stop engaging in the knowing of each other and the curiosity about each other. ” she said. “And you find yourself in a place where you’re like, ‘I don’t even know you.’”.

She described the moment as “tough. ” but said it helped push both of them toward acceptance: “OK. this is done.” Even so. the timing didn’t allow for a clean break. With COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns beginning soon after, Wilde said they stayed together longer than they anticipated. The former couple ultimately split in November of that year.

They still co-parent their two children—Otis, 12, and Daisy, 9. In 2022, their custody dispute made headlines after a widely reported scene in Las Vegas: Wilde was on stage presenting at the CinemaCon convention when she was served with papers related to establishing jurisdiction over their kids.

On “Call Her Daddy. ” Wilde called that moment “incredibly traumatizing.” She said Sudeikis told her he wasn’t aware of where she would be served the papers and that he felt “very. very bad” about it. Wilde also described her own reaction at the time—hoping the incident wouldn’t become a bigger story—only for it to reach international attention.

Months later, she said Tom Cruise brought it up when they met. “He was like, ‘Hi, I’m Tom,’” Wilde recalled. “ ‘[Messed] up, what happened you in Vegas.’”

Taken together. Wilde’s account moves through two sharp turning points: the birthday drive in March 2020. when she says they stopped knowing each other. and the later custody-papers moment that she described as emotionally jarring even as her ex’s role in it was. in her telling. limited by lack of awareness.

For now, the story remains unresolved in the only way these chapters sometimes do—less about who did what, and more about how quickly love can drain from a relationship, and how quickly private disputes can become public.

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