Olivia Wilde said she found it “mortifying” and “incredibly traumatizing” to be served custody documents onstage at CinemaCon in April 2022, and she revisited the viral moment on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
Olivia Wilde didn’t just remember the moment—she winced at it.
On the Wednesday. June 17 episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. the actress. 42. recalled a custody-related incident that unfolded while she was onstage at CinemaCon. “I will never forget one of the most f***ed-up things I went through. among so many. was that I was served papers on stage. ” Wilde said. “Obviously, it was incredibly traumatizing. There’s so many elements to that.”.
Wilde was handed an envelope marked “personal and confidential” during a panel for her film Don’t Worry Darling at CinemaCon in April 2022. Us Weekly subsequently confirmed that the envelope contained custody documents. Wilde and Jason Sudeikis, who were together from 2011 to 2020, share son Otis, 12, and daughter Daisy, 9.
Wilde said she pushed through the experience by telling herself to finish her speech. “I get through it because. weirdly. as women we’re taught to muscle through the most insane experiences. ” she told podcast host Alex Cooper. She described moving backstage afterward: “I was like. ‘Just finish your speech.’ [I] got through it. went backstage and completely dissolved into a puddle.”.
In her telling, she assumed no one saw what happened. “But then, I thought no one saw it because there’s no phones allowed in this event.” It turned out she was wrong.
She eventually learned that the viral coverage had already made its way out through multiple news outlets. “A couple months later, I had the chance [to meet] Tom Cruise, and he was like, ‘Hi, I’m Tom. F***ed up what happened to you in Vegas.’ I was like, ‘No!’” Wilde recalled. She added that she still doesn’t know whether the incident was orchestrated. “Jason has told me that he did not know, and I need to believe that to continue [our coparenting relationship].”.
Wilde also talked about what the process has taken from both sides. saying. “I think that lawyers can be super f***ed up and do f***ed-up things. I’m aware of that. and all of that. but I think that people are never their best selves when they’re engaging in that kind of process. It was so f***ed up in so many ways. I know that whether or not he knew it was going to happen. I know it really hurt him to see it happening to me.”.
The custody fight became a public spectacle after Wilde and Sudeikis split following their relationship ending in November 2020. Wilde said she also had to process the “noise” around her life at the time. including her relationship with now-ex Harry Styles. who she dated from 2021 to 2022. Styles and Wilde worked together on Don’t Worry Darling.
“It was very unfamiliar to me to be thrust into such chaos. It was not my vibe,” Wilde admitted. “That was an unfamiliar thing for me. And I was suddenly in a tornado. … There was all this public madness, but my private life was very far from it and very … wholesome and sweet. I had a lot of real joy and love and happiness during that time.”.
Wilde closed the recollection by saying she had to get support afterward—therapy that still continues. “I know he felt very bad that it happened to me,” she said. “It was a moment that I ended up doing a lot of therapy about. Still kind of do.”
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