Olivia Wilde Reflects on Relationships End on Birthday

has confessed she and 'became strangers' as she opened up about the breakdown of their relationship. 

Appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast on Wednesday, Olivia, 42, recalled the moment they realised they didn't know each other anymore and they knew it was over. 

Speaking ahead of her new film The Invite, which explores a couple having troubles in their marriage, she told host Alex Cooper: '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. 

'It's very difficult and the idea that relationships can come to a place where you become strangers.'

Reflecting on the moment she knew her and Jason were over, she said: 'Like I mean I always I remember the date because it was my birthday, but this is March 2020, March 10th. 

'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."

'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.'

'I'm sure there were a lot of couples... it would be really funny to have a convention of like everybody who broke up the day before lockdown and then had to live and be like we are now co-parenting in the same house 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 realise this isn't helping anybody.'

She added: 'I think there's so many couples who are bickering in a way that becomes kind of a little comedy act. But there's contempt underneath. And we all know contempt is the end. 

'And it is this kind of poking and scraping, but you can go a long time with that. And it takes somebody stopping engaging in that to have the real conversation.'

Olivia and Jason were together from 2011 until they publicly announced their split in November 2020. 

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