Would you ever break up over a birthday gift? For actress Olivia Wilde, it wasn't the gift itself, but what it represented. On a recent podcast, the actress recalled a moment with ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis when he didn't know what to get her for her birthday and they somehow figured out that, that was it!
For most of us, breaking up over a forgotten birthday gift might sound a bit silly. But for Olivia it was something deep. She expressed how with the gift the duo realised they have detached from each other’s personal interests and likings.
Talking about her film The invite, she said, “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”.
She added, “It's very difficult. And the idea that relationships can come to a place where you become strangers”.
Soon recalling about her break up with Jason she said, “Jason and I had been having a rough time for a while. We had a real bumpy, bumpy ride, and we were driving home from my birthday party that my friends had had, and I said, ‘Did you get me a birthday present?’”
Olivia continued, “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 ... you can get to a place in a relationship where you stop engaging in the knowing of each other, in the curiosity of each other, and you find yourself in a place where you’re like, ‘I don’t even know you.’ And that was when we realized it was over.”
However, it seems fate wanted them to stay together a little bit longer. As soon as they had the heartbreaking conversation, COVID lockdown announcement came through. During the confinement they tried to work it out but unfortunately the relationship failed.
She concluded saying, “I think that we existed in this little bubble, and the judgement never really got into that bubble, which was a miracle and a testament to us making that happen.”
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