John Mulaney has announced to the world that she is expecting a baby with Olivia Munn, but not everyone buys her account of her fairy tale romance.
The comic, now sober, has done many things about the actress ’fall in the spring, shortly after leaving a rehab stage for cocaine and alcohol use.
After falling into an intense spiral of addiction, Mulaney, 39, spent several months in rehab in 2020, leaving her two-month stay more recent in February, as Page Six reported. Also in February he filed for divorce from his nearly seven-year-old wife, Anna Marie Tendler.
Mulaney told Seth Meyers on his NBC program Tuesday night: “I went to rehab in September, I left in October, I moved out of my ex-wife’s house,” referring to his separation from Tendler. “Then in the spring, I went to Los Angeles and met and started dating a wonderful woman named Olivia.”
“I got into this relationship that has been really nice with someone amazing,” she added, “And we’re having a baby together.”
He said he actually met Munn for the first time at Meyers ’wedding in 2013.
But that timeline seems to be tenuous.
A celebrity agent who has worked with Munn said, “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that John broke the news of Olivia’s pregnancy in the same way he did in terms of basically giving a chronology of his last months, when he left home, as was the spring when he fell in love with Olivia.
“I think he’ll make a lot of effort to discuss the idea he cheated on.”
Munn has come out with a number of well-known men, including Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and Hollywood piece Chris Pine.
“He has a proven track record of spending time and spending time with SNL guys, so their paths didn’t cross in any way, and there’s the video of them together in 2017,” the agent said.
Sources familiar with Tendler, who now lives on the west coast, confirmed that Mulaney had filed for divorce in February and not after leaving her rehabilitation stage from September to October, he said.
One person who reported said on a report in People magazine that Mulaney and Munn first met at church: “That was BS, and Twitter immediately called Olivia telling her she had known John for a long time. years.
“It’s not entirely clear when their relationship began. There have been rumors for months that she was pregnant and it all seems like a very tight timeline. “
In fact, Page Six was first told that Munn was openly talking about her pregnancy in July, as were Mulaney’s friends. He made the announcement of his imminent arrival days after we posted photos of Munn showing his bulge in Los Angeles last week.
Tendler’s informant said, “Anna Marie knew she was doing things with other women before she went to rehab in December. And her claims to friends that she was trying to protect her before she went to rehab were rubbish, she needed no protection.
“John used Anna Marie to protect himself. But still, she was very heartbroken for him to decide to end her marriage, she was heartbroken how she fell, it wasn’t something she wanted, she wanted to resolve it. I’m sure this news about pregnancy will be very difficult for her. “
When Page Six first heard rumors about Mulaney’s problems, sources close to the star said she was still with Tendler, 36, whom she married in July 2014.
Just months after she left rehab in February 2021, however, it was announced that they were divorcing.
This does not match Mulaney’s claims that he broke with Tendler before his second stage in rehab.
Tendler, an artist who works in many media and is a candidate for a master’s degree in NYU’s costume design program, added through his spokesperson, “I am heartbroken that John has decided to end our marriage.
“I wish him support and success as he continues his recovery.”
As for Mulaney’s first encounter with Munn, her paths crossed absolutely over the years.
In November 2017, they were seen on camera together for Jon Stewart’s HBO special, “Night of Too Many Stars,” where Munn said coquettishly “Hello John” on camera as Mulaney left the room. stage in front of her.
When People magazine first revealed their romance in May, a source said they met at a Los Angeles church, though he noted that “they first socially connected a few years ago and were they kept friendly. “
They both attended Seth Meyers’ wedding to his wife Alexi Ashe at Martha’s Vineyard.
Mulaney and Meyers are longtime close friends from their days working together on “Saturday Night Live,” where Mulaney was a staff writer and Meyers was a lead writer.
Munn was also there with her boyfriend, former “SNL” star Will Forte.
There was even a picture of the “The Newsroom” actress posing with Ashe in an article Mulaney wrote about Vogue parties. In a 2015 HuffPost Live interview, Munn talked about being in a wedding with Mulaney and Tendler and being “obsessed” with him.
“We were together at a wedding and he would say to me,‘ Wow, do you and your fiancé want to go to dinner or something and go hang out? “she said.
“At first it was great, and then I kept approaching him at the wedding like‘ So you’re having fun? “He was so obsessed with staying with him and talking to him.” Munn added that he emailed the comic he was engaged to then, but he never emailed him. ” I may have gotten the wrong email, probably. That’s what I tell myself, “he said.
Despite tying the knot at Onteora Mountain House in Catskills at an Art Deco-themed wedding, with her French bulldog Petunia by her side, in October 2014, Mulaney’s marriage to Tendler was troubled.
A friend who knew about their relationship revealed: “Last year John suffered a blockage. Anna Marie moved to Washington, DC, to work on the Smithsonian project and returned to New York and was out of control.
“He was DM’ing women on Instagram for connections – whether it happened to something, we don’t know – and in December he had fallen off the cart again and abused drugs and alcohol.
“Everything followed a pattern: he and Anna Marie would break up and reunite, he would get lost and then ask him to come back.
“Sometimes, I would tell friends that I was so wasted that I didn’t even remember talking to these women.”
Mulaney was even open to never wanting children.
During his 2015 stand-up special, “The Comeback Kid,” he began to feel constant pressure to form a family with Tendler.
“Our real estate agent wanted us to have one more baby in our lives than anyone else. More than anyone in our family, ”she said,“ She kept it a constant. In every room we entered, she would say, “So this could be an office … or maybe a nursery.”
Mulaney said he and his ex-wife would remind the agent they didn’t want children, but he continued to bend.
“No, no, I know,” the real estate agent replied. “You do not know if you will have it [kids], but you know, you never know. Sometimes you don’t know what’s going to happen and then you know, something is going on. … This is a burning rubbish bin. … It could be a nursery. “
While showing the ex-partner another house, Mulaney recalled the real estate agent explaining why he didn’t like “this garden.”
“She said,‘ Everything is pavement. I think you should have some grass out there, you know, in case you have a couple of guys running through the grass, “the Big Mouth star joked.” And I was offended on behalf of my kids. imaginary! “
He added that he did not want to change the life he and Tendler had.
It was Mulaney’s closest and most famous friends who made an intervention to rehabilitate him again in December.
In May, he returned to New York City Winery and revealed how friends like Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, Natasha Lyonne, Fred Armisen and his best friend Nick Kroll convinced him to go to a clinic.
He joked, “I was the most attractive person in my speech,” he said, because he was in disguise, had just cut himself, and, unlike all the inhabitants of the room who had gained weight during the pandemic, about 105 pounds. thanks to many drugs.
After leaving rehab in February, Mulaney lived a sober life for another month and a half.
Speaking to “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Mulaney explained how he had been in rehab several times, most recently as a result of an intervention instigated by Meyers.
“I love you Seth,” he told Meyers at the end of his appearance. “You saved me from drugs and Olivia and this baby helped me save myself. I have no joke about it. I am very grateful to you friend. “
An NBC source said: “We just want John to be happy. Seth has been his most important cheerleader, last year he gave him a job to keep an eye on him. He organized the intervention, there were some on his show. something special that announced the pregnancy ”.
Mulaney’s representatives declined to comment.