Olivia Wilde is back in a big way in 2026. The actress and filmmaker has two movies out in coming weeks, first with Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex opposite Cooper Hoffman and then as the director and star of The Invite. As part of a promotional swirl, she sat for a lengthy chat with Alex Cooper on SiriusXM's Call Her Daddy. The 42-year-old veteran star opened up on a variety of subjects, from the  chaos  of Don't Worry Darling and the dissolution of her relationship with Jason Sudeikis to that viral red carpet interview and allegations that she's too thin.

If Wilde's visibility seems fresh, that's entirely by design.  Totally intentional,  she told Cooper of taking a step back from public life and not doing any long form interviews in several years.  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. 

The chaos she was referring to was the swirl surrounding Don't Worry Darling in 2022, a time that also happened to coincide with the end of her relationship with Sudeikis and the start of a new one with co-star Harry Styles. Wilde was swarmed by paparazzi and press attention in ways that she had never been before.

 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,  she explained, adding that she did  a shit ton  of therapy to rebuild herself.  It sounds dramatic, but you know rock bottom is just a place to jump off from. It did feel like a destruction, but there is beauty in destruction because you can rebuild. I needed to take a breather and just say,  Wait a minute, what have I learned? Who am 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 it, or else it was for nothing. I'm a very different person than I was three years ago, a much better version of myself because I have just taken the time to process it. 

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