The tumultuous breakup of Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis was reportedly worse than fans may have previously thought. The ending of the former pair’s relationship (and rumors of Wilde’s infidelity) garnered plenty of headlines ever since she announced her relationship with Harry Styles (who starred in the 2022 film she directed, Don’t Worry Darling). As of this week, it appears there’s another character in the rumored love triangle saga— Wilde and Sudeikis’ former nanny.
As reported by The Daily Mail, a source who identified herself as the former nanny who took care of Wilde and Sudeikis’ two children (son Otis, 8, and daughter Daisy, 5) sat down with the outlet for a bombshell and detailed interview. The nanny brought text message screenshots with her, and described how the relationship of Wilde, 38, and Sudeikis, 47, fell apart at the end of 2020. The insider also added an anecdote that broke the internet immediately about Sudeikis allegedly lying under Wilde’s car in an attempt to stop her from seeing her then-new boyfriend, Styles, 28.
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In a joint statement made to Jezebel, Sudeikis and Wilde described the interview with the nanny as the “unfortunate apex” of a “now 18 month long campaign of harassing us, as well as loved ones, close friends and colleagues.” They also called the allegations within it “false and scurrilous.”
Wilde has long said that she and Sudeikis broke up in mid-2020, and that her relationship with Styles did not overlap whatsoever. The nanny, however, has a different story, reportedly dishing that Wilde was talking about marrying Sudeikis as late as October 2020, and even mentioning that she thought of having their young daughter, Daisy be a flower girl. Wilde and Sudeikis (who never married) were engaged from 2013 to 2020 (and began their relationship in 2011). The nanny, who the publication did not name, claimed that the Booksmart director dumped the Ted Lasso actor just after she began filming Don’t Worry Darling.
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After she supposedly moved into a hotel at the start of November 2020, citing a Covid outbreak on the set of her film, Wilde, according to the nanny, broke up with a distraught Sudeikis at their Los Angeles home on November 8th. The nanny added that when she came to work the following Monday that Sudeikis “was crying and a mess, saying, ‘She left us. She left us!'”
The next weekend, the nanny noted that Wilde was preparing a salad for Styles at the Los Angeles house with her “special dressing.” This then upset Sudeikis, the nanny said, since the dressing had some sort of significance to his relationship with Wilde and their children. The tidbit that inspired plenty of tweets and internet memes was this— Sudeikis was allegedly so enraged by Wilde making Styles a salad with this particular dressing that he lay under her car so she could not drive away to go see him.
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The nanny reportedly recalled, “The night she left with her salad, Jason had chased after her, videotaping her in the house. She was saying: ‘I’m scared of you, Jason, I’m scared of you.’ And he said, ‘If you’re scared of me, why are you leaving your kids with me?’ So then, Jason went outside and lay under her car so she wouldn’t leave.” The nanny added, “She got in her car to back up, he lay under her car so she wouldn’t leave. She went back into the house and he went in, it was back and forth. He said he was doing it on purpose to make her late going to see Harry.”
The insider went on, “Jason told me: “She made this salad and she made her special dressing and she’s leaving with her salad to have dinner with [Harry]. I said, what salad dressing? He said: ‘She has a special salad dressing she makes for us and she’s taken it to have it with him now.’ I don’t know what was in it. Out of everything, he was like, ‘She made her special salad dressing and took it to him.’”
Jason Sudeikis found out about Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles’ relationship through an Apple Watch, their former nanny claims. pic.twitter.com/2ruQLGRcG9
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The nanny said that Wilde’s abrupt departure resulted in unstable and erratic behavior from Sudeikis. The Daily Mail described this to be “making his nightly drinking habit worse.” The anonymous source alleged that the comedian would be upbeat one day and then “curse names at [Wilde] to me” the next.
She added that she tried to end her professional relationship with the family in January of 2021. Ultimately, she agreed to work for an additional six months, until a “drunk and out of control” Sudeikis fired her on February 1st of that year. “He said, ‘You’re going to get your stuff and get out. Why are you sending [Wilde] messages?’ I said, ‘Jason, you’ve been drinking and I can tell that you’re drunk. You’re very angry and I’m afraid of you,’” she told the tabloid.
In their statement this week, Wilde’s and Sudeikis’ representatives said that seeing these accusations from the nanny made public was “incredibly upsetting” for both actors. The anonymous insider also told the Daily Mail that she was abruptly fired with no severance. In the months since, she said she has been unable to claim unemployment because Wilde and Sudeikis maintain that she resigned.
