Wilde said she asked Sudeikis on her birthday if he got her a present and he replied, “‘What would I get you, Olivia? I don’t know you.’”

Olivia Wilde knew relationship with ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis was over when he asked this question

Wilde said she asked Sudeikis on her birthday if he got her a present and he replied, "'What would I get you, Olivia? I don't know you.’"

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- On Wednesday, Olivia Wilde revealed the exact moment she realized her relationship with ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis was over.

- The* Don't Worry Darling* filmmaker said that it happened on her 36th birthday in 2020.

- "I said, ‘Did you give me a birthday present? And he said, ‘What would I get you, Olivia? I don't know you,'" she said on the *Call Her Daddy* podcast.

Olivia Wilde is sharing the exact moment that she and ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis knew their almost decade-long relationship was over.

During Wednesday's episode of the *Call Her Daddy* podcast, the *Don’t Worry Darling* filmmaker recalled a cutting conversation that she had with the *Ted Lasso* creator while on the way home from her 36th birthday party.

“It’s no surprise to me that I ended up making a movie about relationships and the complexity of determining whether a relationship is over, because it is not an overnight process,” Wilde said, referring to her new film *The Invite*.

“It's very difficult. And the idea that relationships can come to a place where you become strangers,” she said.

Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis at the Critics' Choice Awards in 2020.

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She explained that everything came to a head on her birthday on March 10, 2020.

“Jason and I had been having a rough time for a while. We had a real bumpy, bumpy ride,” Wilde said. “We were driving home from my birthday party my friends had had, and I said, ‘Did you give me a birthday present? And he said, ‘What would I get you, Olivia? I don't know you.’ And he wasn't wrong. We didn't know each other anymore.”

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She credits the moment as “one of the things” that inspired *The Invite*, explaining how “you can get to a place in a relationship where you stop engaging in the knowing of each other, in the curiosity about each other.”

“And you find yourself in a place where you're like, ‘I don't even know you,’" Wilde continued. "And that was a point, that was when we realized it was over. And it was f---ing tough. And it brought us to the place of like, ‘Okay, this is done. We're going to end this.’”

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Their split occurred just days before the world went into lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It'd be really funny to have a convention of, like, everybody who broke up the day before lockdown and then had to live and then be, like, we are now co-parenting in the same house,” Wilde added. “And, obviously, trying to make it work and trying to put it back together because you want to always put it back together for your kids until you realize, like, this isn't helping anybody.”

Wilde and Sudeikis began dating in 2011 and got engaged in January 2013. Over the course of their nine-year relationship, the pair had two children together — son Otis and daughter Daisy — before ultimately announcing their separation in November 2020.

On the *Call Her Daddy *podcast, Wilde also discussed receiving child custody papers from Sudeikis while on stage at CinemaCon in 2022, calling the incident “one of the most f‑‑‑ed up things” she went through at the time.

“Jason has told me that he did not know, and I need to believe that to continue [our co-parenting dynamic],” she said. “I think that lawyers can be super f‑‑‑ed up and do f‑‑‑ed up things. I’m aware of that, and all of that, but I think that people are never their best selves when they’re engaging in that kind of process.”

“It was so f‑‑‑ed up in so many ways," she added. "I know that, whether or not he knew it was going to happen, I know it really hurt him to see it happening to me. It was undeniable that it was a f‑‑‑ed up thing and I know he felt very bad that it happened to me.”

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