Olivia Wilde details ‘f*cked up’ interaction with A-list actor after ‘traumatising’ custody papers moment

Olivia Wilde is sharing an interaction she had with a major actor after she was served divorce papers.

The actor and director went viral in 2022 when during a CinemaCon presentation, she was served divorce papers in front of a shocked audience.

Wilde had split from actor Jason Sudeikis and was at the event to promote her film Don’t Worry Darling, which was also the centre of speculation, she was given legal documents while in the middle of her speech.

Footage of the incident went viral and it became a huge talking point and area of speculation amid the end of her marriage.

Reflecting on the incident during an episode of the podcast Call Her Daddy, Wilde said: “I will never forget, one of the most f—ed things that I went through, among so many, was that I was served papers on stage.

Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis announced their break up in 2020 (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

“It was incredibly traumatising,” she added. “There’s the feeling of being on stage, you know, like, that is a vulnerable feeling.”

Wilde remarked that the room ‘couldn’t have been higher stress’ as the attendees are all ‘the studio people you were trying to, like, impress, the most with your work’.

She said after finishing her speech before going backstage where she ‘completely dissolved into a puddle’.

If there was any shred of hope that no one noticed, it was quickly destroyed as not only did it become one of the most talked about moments of the year, a Hollywood A-lister who has had their fair share of high profile divorces heard about what happened.

Wilde is reflecting on the awkward moment (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

“I remember, like, a couple of months later, I met Tom Cruise. He was like, ‘Hi, I’m Tom. F—ed up what happened to you in Vegas,’ and I was like, ‘No!’”

Cruise has had three high-profile divorces, including Mimi Rogers in 1990, Nicole Kidman in 2001, and Katie Holmes in 2012.

Wilde explained she and her ex, with whom she shares Otis, 12, and Daisy, nine, now have a good co-parenting relationship.

“I know Jason has told me that he did not know [about the timing] and I need to believe that in order to continue,” she said.

“And you know, I think that lawyers can be super f---ed up and do f---ed up things, and I'm aware of that… I think that people are never their best selves when they're engaging in that kind of process, and it was so f---ed up in so many ways.”