Olivia Munn is speaking up about a toxic relationship in a new interview.
The “Predator” actress, a guest on Catt Sadler’s “Naked” podcast, talked about an unhealthy romance, without naming her boyfriend at the time. Munn has dated notable men like athletes Aaron Rodgers and Brad Richards, as well as actors Chris Pine and Joel Kinnaman.
“We had been in calm waters for a long time, it’s always calm waters,” Munn, 38, told Sadler. “And then all of a sudden the boat capsized.
“I think a lot of women and men who are in relationships are like this, where you’re just walking on eggshells, and you’re just happy anytime it’s like you can breathe a little bit, even though you don’t realize that you have a cinder block on your chest the whole time, but you’re taking in little sips of air.
“So, when it capsized, I was still in the emotional place that I had been in for those years, which wasn’t a good place. And, then, when you do go through something like that, you do truly feel worthless.”
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During the relationship, she felt “like I was in the middle of the ocean with no life raft, no life vest, and every day I had to just keep going, ’cause eventually, it will get better.”
Munn said she recovered with the help of those close to her: “It was honestly my girlfriends and my friends and my mom and my sister.”
Olivia Munn photographed during the 2019 Cannes International Series Festival on April 8, 2019. (Photo: VALERY HACHE, AFP/Getty Images)
About three weeks before her breakup, Munn and her mom had a marathon, all-night conversation in which she divulged “everything.”
“I finally finished telling her how it had been, and then I said, ‘But, I think it’s gonna be OK. I think it’s gonna be OK,’ and she just stopped me, and she said, ‘It’s time to let him go. You can’t do this anymore.'”
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Munn said her “biggest struggle in life is motivating for myself,” which led her to decline amazing job offers simply because he objected.
“I had an opportunity to go onto Broadway and turned that down. I had an opportunity to go to Australia to film. And he said, ‘Don’t. don’t do it,’” to which Munn said, “OK.”
She explained, “That was easy for me to do. That was so easy for me to say, ‘No.’ It felt good and bad to put myself second and put somebody else first.”
She added, “I love helping other people, especially if I’m in a relationship, I just can’t help myself, I just want to do all that, and I will, all day long, turn away my stuff.”
Munn also suspects that neither marriage nor children are in her future “unless somebody comes around that’s so amazing” that she’d be willing to make room in her life for that person.
“I don’t know if I have space for that, ’cause I’m so happy,” she said. “Everything else is so great, I have to get rid of one thing to have you in (it) because that’s what it has always been. I’ve got to take something that feels great in my life right now to make room for you, and why would anybody do that?”
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