Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis are BACK on good terms after ugly custody battle as they embrace
Olivia Wilde and her ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis appeared to be on good terms when they were spotted together in Los Angeles this week, more than two years after they ended their seven-year engagement in 2020.
Sudeikis, 47, and Wilde, 38, left a meeting together and were seen chatting on the sidewalk, before joining in a hug and going their separate ways.
The couple have been in an ugly custody battle over their children Otis, eight, and Daisy, six, coinciding with Wilde’s relationship with Harry Styles, whom he directed in last year’s film Don’t Worry Darling.
Affection: Olivia Wilde and her ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis seemed on good terms when they were spotted together in Los Angeles this week, more than two years after they ended their seven-year engagement in 2020
Backstory: The couple have waged an ugly custody battle over their children Otis, eight, and Daisy, six, overlapping with Wilde’s relationship with Harry Styles, whom he directed in the recent film Don’t Worry Darling.
Styles, who starred in Wilde’s latest directorial venture, Don’t Worry Darling, split from her in November after a romance that lasted nearly two years.
Wilde and Sudeikis were seen the following month having what appeared to be a tense conversation after leaving a two-hour meeting in Hollywood.
However, they seemed more comfortable with each other during their sighting this week, chatting amongst themselves and giving each other a loving hug.
They expressed goodwill as they walked away from each other, with Sudeikis tossing a peace sign in the air and Wilde smiling brightly as he strolled across the parking lot.
Backdrop: Styles, who starred in Wilde’s latest directorial venture, Don’t Worry Darling, split from her in November after a romance that lasted nearly two years.
Changing times: Wilde and Sudeikis were spotted the following month having what appeared to be a tense conversation after leaving a two-hour meeting together in Hollywood, a far cry from their last sighting there (pictured)
However: They seemed more comfortable with each other during their sighting this week, chatting amongst themselves and giving each other an affectionate hug.
They’re leaving: They expressed their goodwill as they walked away from each other, with Sudeikis tossing a peace sign into the air and Wilde smiling brightly as he strolled across the parking lot.
The drama between them during their legal battle has been leaked to the public multiple times, including when custody papers were served to her while onstage at CinemaCon last April.
Wilde called the incident “an attack on her workplace” but said she was not surprised it happened because there was a “reason” she left her relationship with Sudeikis.
In court documents obtained by DailyMail.com, he argued that the decision to serve her on stage in front of an audience was an attempt to “threaten” and “shame” her.
Sudeikis filed a lawsuit against her ex in New York City Family Court in October 2021, and the dispute has largely revolved around where the children will live full-time.
While he wanted them to live in Brooklyn, Wilde hoped they would stay in Los Angeles and possibly move to London, where her then-boyfriend Harry Styles lived.
In a legal filing signed on August 5 of last year, a judge ruled that “New York was not the state of origin of the children in question” and that “California was the state of origin of the children.”
‘Therefore, for the reasons set forth in the record of July 15, 2022, Respondent’s motion to dismiss the custody petitions filed on October 21, 2021, is granted,’ the submission, which was reviewed by page sixstated.
The court found that “New York does not have jurisdiction to hear custody petitions” because it is not Otis and Daisy’s home state.
Wilde filed a petition to “determine parental relationship in the Superior Court of California, in Los Angeles” in May, according to the filing. His legal team moved to legally dismiss Sudekis’ custody case on May 18.
Experts argued at the time that the custody battle was likely to continue in California.
In Wilde’s motion to dismiss Sudeikis’ lawsuit, the actress claimed that she and he initially agreed to send their children back to school in Los Angeles for the next school year because Sudeikis was due to wrap up the final season of the Apple series. TV Ted Lasso. which had required him to be in London.
“Recently, however, Jason decided that he wanted to go to New York for the next year while he wasn’t working, and he wanted the kids to be with him there during this time off,” the actress said in the presentation. “When I disagreed, since the children have not lived in New York for several years, Jason produced these documents.”
Wilde, who began dating Styles in January 2021, argued that the children have spent most of the last four years in either Los Angeles or London, attending schools in both cities.
Wilde received the court documents April 26 in the midst of a presentation to 4,100 film industry executives about his thriller Don’t Worry Darling when a process server clumsily handed him a manila envelope.
The bizarre moment sparked furious speculation among attendees and reporters at the annual meeting of Hollywood studio and theater owners about the contents of the envelope.
Sudeikis has maintained that he was unaware that Wilde would be handed the papers in such a public and humiliating manner.