Olivia Wilde has broken her silence about the wild interaction she experienced at the 2022 CinemaCon when served with legal documents.
The actress and director call the incident “really vicious.”
“It was my workplace,” she told Variety in an interview published Wednesday. “In any other workplace, it would be seen as an attack. It was really upsetting. It shouldn’t have been able to happen.”
Wilde was scandalized when someone placed a manila envelope marked “Personal and Confidential” in front of her during her April presentation to theater owners in late April. “This is for me, right?” she asked, according to Deadline. “Very mysterious. I’m going to open it now. Is this a script? OK, got it. Thank you.”
It wasn’t an unsolicited script after all’ but custody papers from her ex, Jason Sudeikis.
Without naming her ex-fiance and the father of their two children, 8-year-old Otis, and Daisy, 5, the 38-year-old “Booksmart” filmmaker described the “really scary” situation as a “huge breach in security.”
Following the incident, Sudeikis said he “deeply regret[s] what happened” and has reiterated that he had no control over it.
“Olivia’s talk was an important event for Olivia, both professionally and personally, and I am very, very sorry that the incident marred her special moment,” the “Ted Lasso” star said in court documents.
It doesn’t appear that Wilde, who is currently romantically linked to Harry Styles, isn’t buying that.
“The hurdles that you had to jump through to get into that room with several badges, plus special COVID tests that had to be taken days in advance, which gave you wristbands that were necessary to gain access to the event — this was something that required forethought,” she told the publication.
She said that those who were hurt the most were their kids: “They’ll have to see that, and they shouldn’t ever have to know what happened.”
A New York family court judge reportedly sided with Wilde in early August, citing that their custody case can be heard in Los Angeles, since California is their children’s home state.
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