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It was basically a full-time job keeping up with all of 2022’s Don’t Worry Darling drama: Spitgate, Florence Pugh arriving at the Venice Film Festival at the last minute, “Miss Flo.” Perhaps the darkest moment came early in the film’s promotional cycle, when Olivia Wilde was served with custody papers from Jason Sudeikis while giving a presentation at CinemaCon, a memory she called “traumatic” in an appearance on Call Her Daddy on Wednesday. It was actually so bad that even Tom Cruise told Wilde he felt sorry for her.
“One of the most fucked up things I went through, among so many, was that I was served papers onstage,” Wilde said while talking about the whole ordeal. “Obviously, it was incredibly traumatizing. There’s so many elements to that. But I get through it because, weirdly, as women, we’re taught to muscle through the most insane experiences. Like, ‘Just finish your speech.’ Got through it. Went backstage, completely dissolved into a puddle.”
At the time, Wilde thought no one outside the event would even know that it happened, because there were no phones allowed. “Oh, what’s that? It’s already up on ‘Page Six’?” Wilde recalled thinking. “There’s a video? Okay. Well, no one’s going to look because like no one’s paying attention.”
As it turns out, the rest of the world — including Tom Cruise — was very much paying attention. Wilde said she met Cruise a couple months after the incident, and the first thing he said to her was, “Hi, I’m Tom. Fucked up what happened to you in Vegas.” This is a guy who walks on airplane wings and drives motorcycles off of cliffs. If he’s saying something is messed up, you know it’s really bad. Wilde seems to have a good attitude about all of this now and told Cooper that she “can laugh” about the Cruise moment now.
Wilde also addressed the longstanding rumor that Sudeikis knowingly had her served while she was onstage. “Jason has told me that he did not know, and I need to believe that in order to continue,” she told Cooper. “I think that lawyers can be super fucked up and do fucked up things. I’m aware of that, but I think that people are never their best selves when they’re engaging in that kind of process. It was so fucked 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.”
Him and Tom Cruise both, it seems. Wilde, for her part, has done “a lot of therapy” about that moment and has come out on the other side. “The crazy thing is like, once you make it through things like that, you kind of feel like you can make it through anything.”
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