Olivia Wilde’s highly anticipated film Don’t Worry Darling has been associated with an unprecedented amount of headlines, beginning when filming began, when Wilde started a relationship with her leading man, Harry Styles after leaving her partner of nine years, Jason Sudeikis. Wilde shares her two children with the Ted Lasso star, Otis, 8, and Daisy, 5.
Wilde and Styles sparked romance rumors shortly after filming began, leading onlookers to suspect that their relationships with the two men overlapped.
“The complete horses**t idea that I left Jason for Harry is completely inaccurate,” she told Vanity Fair in a new interview. “Our relationship was over long before I met Harry. Like any relationship that ends, it doesn’t end overnight. Unfortunately, Jason and I had a very bumpy road, and we officially dissolved the relationship towards the beginning of the pandemic. We were raising two kids during lockdown, so we co-parented through that time. Once it became clear that cohabitating was no longer beneficial for the children, it became the responsible thing to not, because we could be better parents as friends who live in different houses.”
Last year, the SNL alum star told GQ that the pair went their separate ways in November of 2020, mere months before Wilde was spotted holding hands with the One Direction alum.
“I don’t understand the need to create false narratives and drama around this kind of stuff,” Wilde told the publication. “It’s like, haven’t the kids been through enough?”
“I evolved a lot between when I was 27 and 35,” she added. “I found myself as a director. And I think I found myself as an individual. And sometimes when you evolve, you evolve out of relationships that were based on an earlier version of yourself.”
Fanning the flames, Wilde attended CinemaCon in promotion of her film back in April, and was served legal papers concerning the custody of her children by Sudeikis while on stage.
Also adding fire were rumors of a feud between Wilde and her leading lady Florence Pugh, who was rumored to be upset about Wilde’s romance with Styles.
“It is very rare that people assume the best from women in power,” she said. “I think they don’t often give us the benefit of the doubt. Florence did the job I hired her to do, and she did it exquisitely. She blew me away. Every day I was in awe of her, and we worked very well together.”
She continued, “It is ironic that now, with my second film—which is again about the incredible power of women, what we’re capable of when we unite, and how easy it is to strip a woman of power by using other women to judge and shame them—we’re talking about this.”