Olivia Wilde made a rare comment about her co-parenting relationship with ex Jason Sudeikis in a new interview, and admitted that it’s harder than it may seem.
“I really take pride in how good we are at co-parenting our kids in my family. We have reached this healthy equilibrium. It’s so hard,” Wilde, 42, told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday.
“Anyone who pretends it’s easy — like, ‘Oh, you just consciously uncouple, and then you find a way’ — that’s BS. I feel relieved that I’m able to give them a life with parents where there’s a real sense of authenticity in terms of how everyone’s feeling and doing,” she explained.
The two share two children together — son Otis Alexander, 12, and daughter Daisy Josephine, 10.
During the interview, Wilde shared that kids are more perceptive than they may let on, especially when it comes to divorce.
“When you’re trying to hide it from your kids, they sense it. They’re the most intuitive people in the house. And then people start to feel, like, What is real? Because I can tell that something’s being performed for me. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone,” the “Don’t Worry Darling” star admitted.
She also admitted that it can make you feel like a “failure” when your relationship doesn’t work out, and called her split one of the most “painful decisions” that she’d ever had to make.
“It feels like a failure when you can’t make a relationship work, particularly if it’s with the person you have children with,” Wilde said.
“…That is by far the most difficult, painful decision I’ve ever made in my life, to understand that it was not better for my kids to live in a house where their parents were not aligned.”
Wilde and Sudeikis were never married, but were engaged for seven years. They split in 2020, and later entered a very contentious custody dispute.
The director was infamously served legal papers from Sudeikis while on stage at CinemaCon in April 2022.
A source told Page Six at the time that Wilde was mortified. “It seemed unthinkable to her, and it took a moment to set in, but as mortifying as it was, she did not want to give a reaction,” the insider explained.
A year later, in 2023, the former couple settled the bitter battle. The “Ted Lasso” star agreed to pay Wilde $27,500 per month in child support.
During a June appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast this summer, Wilde revealed the final breaking pointin her relationship with Sudeikis.
She explained that the two had largely grown apart, but things really came to a head when they were driving home from a birthday party her friends had thrown for her.
The “Booksmart” director asked her now-ex if he had gotten her a present, and received a surprising answer.
“He said, ‘What would I get you Olivia? I don’t know you,’” Wilde recalled. “And he wasn’t wrong. We didn’t know each other anymore.”
“That was when we realized it was over, and it was f****ng tough. It brought us to the place of, like, ‘OK, this is done. We’re going to end this,’” she said.
Currently, Wilde is dating British art dealer Caspar Jopling.
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