Olivia Wilde gives rare insight into how split from Harry Styles affected her career

Olivia Wilde finally broke the silence on her shocking split from Harry Styles.

The 42-year-old actress recently appeared on The Louis Theroux Podcast, where she said she was "hurt" by the intense backlash she received following her separation from the Watermelon Sugar singer.

Olivia, who dated Harry for two years, has now admitted the fallout affected her personally and her 2022 movie Don't Worry Darling.

During the interview, Louis said, "We were talking about how when the film came out it was derailed by publicity. I mean many multidimensional scandals."

"Your relationship at the time was breaking up. You had a well-publicised relationship with your co-star Harry Styles and, there was a kind of a misogynistic dimension to a lot of the coverage of the drama, the fallout," he added.

To which Olivia replied, "I think it did hurt the film for sure because we didn't get to have the conversations about what the film was trying to say, which was a shame because so many people worked so hard to make that film in the depths of COVID."

"We made the film for $30million. I think it looks like a much more expensive film because of the work of people like Matty Libatique, who shot the film, Katie Byron, who production designed the film," she continued. "But we never got to talk about that, so I think it [the coverage of the split] hurt the film. It hurt me for sure, because I was so naive up until that point about the grinder, the garbage disposal that the internet can be.

"So at this point, I have enough of a perspective on it and that allows me to experience it as a fascinating time. It is interesting to witness a tornado from the inside, added The Drinking Buddies actress.

It is worth mentioning here that Olivia is currently busy promoting her newly released film, The Invite.