Life has not been easy for Olivia Wilde lately. Her new film, Don’t Worry Darling, has been drenched in drama, and some people have criticized her skills as a director.
But for Wilde, there’s something more important than her career, and that’s her children. During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Wednesday, September 21, the 38-year-old actress/filmmaker talked about trying to find balance at home following her divorce from Jason Sudeikis.
For those who don’t know, Wilde and Sudeikis share an 8-year-old son named Otis and a 5-year-old daughter named Daisy.
Wilde admitted “reshaping” her family has been difficult at times.
It’s allowed for some really deep conversations with my kids about emotions and about happiness and about what family means and love. It’s actually allowed me to get to know them in a different way. My priority is them, as long as they’re happy and they’re healthy. There are so many families that are blended and different shapes.
She went on to say that raising her children with Sudeikis has been challenging following the split, and it’s only been made worse because they’re doing it with everyone watching, but they are slowly figuring it out.
If you can surround them with so much love, then it’s OK. But it’s tricky because we’re not doing it in private.
As for Sudeikis? Well, he talked about the split in a GQ cover story back in July of last year.
I’ll have a better understanding of why [the split happened] in a year. And an even better one in two, and an even greater one in five, and it’ll go from being, you know, a book of my life to becoming a chapter to a paragraph to a line to a word to a doodle.
Here’s to hoping they can make it work. I get the sense there is still some tension between them, but perhaps the wounds are still fresh.
