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Olivia Wilde Explains Marriage Split After Teen Wedding

Olivia Wilde is looking back on the whirlwind romance that saw her marry an Italian prince after getting engaged at Burning Man when she was just 19.The actress...

Olivia Wilde Explains Marriage Split After Teen Wedding
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is looking back on the whirlwind romance that saw her marry an Italian prince after getting engaged at Burning Man when she was just 19.

The actress, 42, opened up about her eight-year marriage to filmmaker and aristocrat Tao Ruspoli during an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, admitting she was struck by doubts almost immediately after saying 'I do.'

Long before her high-profile relationship with , with whom she shares two children, Wilde tied the knot with Ruspoli in 2003 in what she now describes as a wildly impulsive decision.

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The pair became engaged at the free-spirited festival before exchanging vows aboard an abandoned school bus in rural .

'It seemed like probably the craziest thing to do, and it was so romantic and insane,' Wilde recalled.

'And then, immediately, I was like, "Wait, what the f*** did I just do?"'

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Olivia Wilde is looking back on the whirlwind romance that saw her marry an Italian prince after getting engaged at Burning Man when she was just 19

The actress, 42, opened up about her eight-year marriage to filmmaker and aristocrat Tao Ruspoli during an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, admitting she was struck by doubts almost immediately after saying 'I do'; Above, in 2005

She added, ‘Because I had a pattern already at that point of spontaneous decision making.

'And I think that is one of the beauties of youth, but I would get myself into a whole bunch of trouble all the time.’

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The pair remained married for several years before announcing their separation in February 2011, with their divorce finalized later that year; Above, in 2010

‘And Jason and I had been having a rough time of it for a while. Like we had we had a real bumpy bumpy ride. And we were driving home from my birthday party 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.’

Olivia continued: ‘This is the thing that made me want to make this movie because 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."

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‘And that was the point when we realised it was over and it was f****g tough and it brought us to the place of like, "okay this is done. We're going to end this." And then literally two days later was lockdown.’

Wilde and Sudeikis were together from 2011 until they publicly .

They got engaged in 2013 and share two children, Otis, 12, and Daisy, nine.

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