Olivia Wilde Reveals Shocking Red Carpet Experience

 has opened up about how the reaction to a  really made her feel. 

Appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast on Wednesday, Olivia, 42, discussed the clip and images that began circulating online back in May after she appeared at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

She looked almost unrecognisable and gaunt in the clip and subsequently blamed the camera's distorting fisheye lens while also acknowledging that it didn't show her in the best light.

During the podcast interview, Alex brought it up, saying: 'So... 2026... this year you go on a red carpet... Olivia...'.

Immediately knowing what she was referring to, Olivia began laughing then said: 'I'm so happy you're bringing this up... I was looking like an actual dead body! 

'I looked like... are you too young for Tales From The Crypt? Well there was a dead sarcophagus man in that... I looked like that.

'It was absolutely insane! I saw the picture and I was like 'oh that won't go very far', and then suddenly it went f***ing everywhere. We all have bad photos taken but then imagine it being on one hundred million phones. And that's not how I actually look!

'But this is the thing about having really good friends. They are the ones that laugh the hardest. Any joke that has been made about me - my friends have made it first and been funnier about it. We had to laugh!

'People thought I was sick and dying, people were diagnosing me with diseases, Megyn Kelly did a whole segment about it and how dead I looked. It was undeniably hilarious but also insane.

'You have to learn to laugh at this stuff...'.

The viral film festival video was viewed more than ten million times, and many took to social media to express dismay at the time.

One user wrote on X: 'First, Angelina Jolie showed up looking like the ghost of her former self, and now Olivia Wilde looks like she has been overdoing the GLP-1s. What is happening to these actresses?'

Another asked: 'What the hell is going on in Hollywood at the moment?'

At the event, Wilde looked chic in a simple, tailored white T-shirt, with her hair tied back with a bow.

The American star was compared to Gollum, even by her own brother, after the red carpet appearance. 

At the time she shared an Instagram Stories video writing: 'Leave it to your little brother to give you the maximum amount of s***.'