Olivia Wilde Addresses All the Perceived Drama From 'Don't Worry Darling' Press Tour Amid Lots of Rumored Tension - Just Jared - Celebrity News and Gossip

While on Call Her Daddy, Olivia Wilde was asked about all the drama and attention surrounding her personal and professional life from the set of her movie, Don’t Worry Darling.

If you don’t know, during the press tour for the movie, she was often asked about dating Harry Styles, if she left Jason Sudeikis for him, and more. She also was the subject of rumors having to do with the film’s stars and perceived tension.

We gathered up what she shared about this time period.

Olivia Wilde spoke about taking a step back from the public eye in recent years

She said, “I feel like, I felt like I needed to get quiet. I needed to hear myself again, there was so much noise. And it was a very unfamiliar thing to me to be thrust into such chaos. It was not my vibe. That was an unfamiliar thing for me. And I was suddenly in a tornado and I needed to excuse myself from the tornado and just go and get quiet and hear myself and process, process all of the pain and the lessons that I could find in it. I did a sh-t ton of therapy. I took it as an opportunity to rebuild myself at this point in my life. And I think there is value to that. There is, you know, it sounds dramatic, but say like, you know, rock bottom is just a place to jump off from and rock bottom just sounds very dramatic. I think for me it was like, it did feel like a destruction. But there is beauty in destruction because you can rebuild. And I needed to take a breather and just say like, “Wait a minute, what have I learned? Who am I? And how can I, how can I accept this humbling as a chance to kind of spend the rest of my life as a person who has grown from this, because I have to have grown from, or else it was for nothing.” And I’m a very different person than I was three years ago. I think a much better version of myself because I have just taken the time to process it.”

Alex Cooper then noted everyone was talking about “your relationships, your parenting, your looks, and overall really like your morality as a woman” during that time.

Olivia responded by addressing all the rumors and drama surrounding Don’t Worry Darling

She said, “F-king bananas. It was so strange. The world was also in a weird place because it was COVID, so like everything was topsy turvy weird. But I’ve never felt more disconnected from the person that people were talking about. Like, I was like, ‘what? Who are they talking about? Who is that girl?'”

“It was also very strange to see complete fiction traded as fact. And it was really funny. I had an assistant at the time, was one of my dear, dear friends, and she was like, ‘Man, working for you is really like, ruin the tabloids for me now I know it’s fake. And I used to really love it. And now I’m like ugh, but now I know it’s not real.’ Because you would, there would be like fake sources, fake stories. Because once there’s a narrative formed, they are just trying to maintain that narrative. And it has nothing to do with the truth anymore. It’s just click bait that they have to maintain. And it doesn’t matter what really happened at that point,” she said.

Olivia explained that there would be “evidence to the contrary” on some stories

She remarked, “It’s like, and you could be like, ‘Wait a minute, but there’s, here’s this evidence to the contrary.’ They’re like, ‘Excuse me, quiet because it just not fit what we’ve already decided.’ And I understood that. And I will say like that I had a really, there was all this public madness, but my private life was very far from it and very actually kind of like wholesome and sweet. And I was, I had a really, I had a lot of like real joy and love and happiness during that time. It was like, it was like a tornado was right outside the door, and if you were inside you were like, it’s so nice. And you open the door and be like, ah, like a f-king like cow and a tractor would fly by.”

Olivia then shared why rumors weren’t shot down in real time

She shared, “…it was so hard because I wanted to be like, ‘Can I just talk to people? Can I just go and say like, that’s not true. That’s not true.’ And [it] was like, ‘No, that won’t help.’ And that was really hard. I just, I was also responsible for you know, promoting a movie. I was responsible for the movie. I was like, it’s not about me. It’s about this, this movie that everyone works so hard to make. And I felt like I was working on behalf of hundreds of people who had worked through COVID to make something really difficult. And I felt frustrated that I couldn’t defend myself, but it also felt like, okay, it’s not about you, not about you just get the movie out.”

She continued, “And the pummeling that I took was so insanely disproportionate. But I think the thing that I understand, you can get really angry. You can be, and I’m sure you have felt this, you’re like, ah, the frustration, you feel so angry. The thing is like, I get it. Like shit’s hard. The world is insane. And the escapism of the tabloids is something that is in a way very soothing for people. It’s understandable. And that’s such a weird thing that we all are capable of. So I felt this like understanding. I also felt like, oh, no wonder people are filling in the gaps with fiction because they don’t have all the information.” 

Olivia also spoke to why she believes certain storylines got out of hand

She shared, “I think that what happens is people become hypersensitive. They’re looking for evidence to reinforce the narrative they’ve already created about you. So if they’ve decided, because the kinda tabloids have cast you in the soap opera of the tabloids as the villain, that’s been determined. So anything you do, it’s like, it’ll reinforce that same thing. I mean, again, like I don’t blame people because, I mean I sort of, yeah, I felt like hurt by it and confused, but I don’t know it in a way it was almost, it wasn’t me. It’s like I could, I think that people just removed the human from it and it was just like a thing. But I also think the lack of information.”

She continued, “Also, I, at the time I think didn’t understand the value of vulnerability. I think I thought that put a f-king smile on, get out there and put on a beautiful dress and like be Teflon and that was the way to get through it. I actually think there’s value in being vulnerable and just being like, oh, ouch. I don’t know. This hurts. And I think that my own attempt to be strong and to kind of like rise above it in a way came off as inauthentic because people are like, you must be hurting. Why are you pretending to not be hurting? I think that was authentic. And there’s almost a sixth sense, like uncanny valley thing where people are like, ‘I sense that you’re not showing us your pain and therefore I’m gonna cause you more pain.’” 

What was reported about the drama from Don’t Worry Darling?

Olivia was the subject of a ton of rumors on the set.

First, her relationship with now ex-boyfriend Harry Styles was a big topic of discussion.

Then, she was the subject of rumors about Shia LaBeouf, who was attached to star but didn’t end up doing the project.

Olivia claimed that she fired Shia from the movie, but then he spoke out and said that he actually quit and was later replaced by Harry. A leaked video that Olivia allegedly sent to Shia also emerged in which she seemingly tried to convince him to continue with the movie.

Rumors of a feud Olivia and star Florence Pugh also dominated the news cycle around the release of the project.

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