Olivia Wilde slams ‘vicious’ act by Jason Sudeikis: ‘There’s a reason I left that relationship’

Olivia Wilde has accused her ex-fiancé, Jason Sudeikis, of attempting to “sabotage” her career by having child custody papers served at CinemaCon, where she was about to present clips from her hotly anticipated new movie, “Don’t Worry Darling.”

“To try to sabotage that (moment) was really vicious,” Wilde said in a new interview with Variety. “But, you know, sadly, it was not something that was entirely surprising to me. I mean, there’s a reason I left that relationship.”

Wilde and Sudeikis are locked in what’s become a bitter custody battle over their two children, son Otis, 8, and daughter Daisy, 5. The actor-turned director and “Ted Lasso” star were in a relationship from 2011 to 2020.

While the couple share custody, Sudeikis recently petitioned the court to ask for Otis and Daisy to live with him in New York. A judge denied Sudeikis’ request.

Apparently, as part of that petition, a process server working on behalf of the Sudeikis approached Wilde as she was onstage at CinemaCon in April and handed her an envelope containing custody papers.

The former “Saturday Night Live” star said in a statement that he had “no prior knowledge” of the process server’s plans and “would never condone her being served in such an inappropriate manner,” but Wilde believes that the ambush was planned to embarrass her.

“It was my workplace,” Wilde told Variety. “In any other workplace, it would be seen as an attack. It was really upsetting. It shouldn’t have been able to happen. There was a huge breach in security, which is really scary. The hurdles that you had to jump through to get into that room with several badges, plus special COVID tests that had to be taken days in advance, which gave you wristbands that were necessary to gain access to the event — this was something that required forethought.”

Variety said that CinemaCon was supposed to be a professional milestone for Wilde. When handed the mysterious envelope, the director didn’t miss a beat and carried on with her presentation.

“I hated that this nastiness distracted from the work of so many different people and the studio that I was up there representing,” Wilde told Variety.

If Wilde is concerned about off-screen issues distracting from the work her cast and crew put into “Don’t Worry Darling,” she appears aware that her ex-fiancé isn’t her only problem.

After she and Sudeikis broke up in 2020, she and her film’s leading man, singer Harry Styles, starting making headlines for starting a romance during production of the sci-fi thriller. Styles and Florence Pugh co-star as a married couple living in an experimental “Mad Men”-like utopia called Victory.

Wilde declined to say too much about the relationship to Variety.

“I’m not going to say anything about it because I’ve never seen a relationship benefit from being dragged into the public arena,” Wilde said. “We both go out of our way to protect our relationship; I think it’s out of experience, but also just out of deep love.”