Olivia Munn Staged ‘Mini Intervention’ on John Mulaney, Started Giving Him Random Drug Exams

Whereas sitting down for his cowl story with GQ for its twenty ninth Annual Males of the Yr subject, Mulaney opened up about his earlier drug use, in addition to how his relationship with Olivia Munn had aided him via the restoration course of.

The 42-year-old comic described his “previous drug habits” to the publication as exhausting.

“There was a time once I would have advised you that I couldn’t fly, sleep, or carry out until I had a Klonopin,” he revealed.

“I assumed I had severe mild sensitivity onstage. Spotlights needed to be at a super-low grade. The entrance row needed to be lit, as a result of I assumed I had a spatial … not vertigo, however one thing like that,” he shared. “I’d have mentioned, ‘It sucks, as a result of I do not at all times need to take Klonopin and Xanax, however I have to.’”

The actor recalled an evening he did a lot cocaine in his New York Metropolis residence that he thought he was going to die.

“I assumed, ‘Okay, that is insane. I will completely decelerate,’ That was like a Tuesday. And Thursday night time, I did it once more,” he advised the outlet.

In 2020, Mulaney entered rehab for his habit to cocaine and different prescription drugs. He later went via a relationship breakdown along with his spouse Anna Marie Tendler, in addition to a relapse. Following a second stint in rehab, he started seeing Munn … who quickly discovered she was pregnant.

“It wasn’t something near ‘courting,’ I barely knew him,” Munn advised the magazine, earlier than recalling how she felt assembly Mulaney at the beginning of his restoration journey.

“I used to be watching somebody newly sober, on the fringe of a cliff, and I did not know him effectively sufficient to assist him,” she shared.

She advised the magazine she staged a “mini-intervention” on him whereas she was six-months pregnant — and, with a view to assist Mulaney proceed his sobriety, they agreed she would begin giving him random drug checks.

“It is like a reduction … I like to have the ability to not even have that be a query in her or anybody else’s thoughts. One thing about peeing in that cup is like, I am strolling this stroll. It offers me confidence,” he mentioned of the method, which they proceed now.

The pair now share two-year-old son Malcolm, 2 who they welcomed in November 2021. In September 2024, additionally they revealed they welcomed a second youngster, daughter Méi, by way of surrogate.

The comic has been open about his expertise marrying right into a Vietnamese-American household, as soon as referring to it as “the best single time in my life.” For her half, Munn advised GQ that Mulaney has “seamlessly slot in with my mother and aunts in a manner that I’ve by no means been capable of.”

“They love the identical motion pictures. They love the identical Vietnamese gossip,” she continued.

In July, PEOPLE reported Mulaney and Munn had tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at a good friend’s house in New York. A supply advised the outlet that Munn’s costar from The Newsroom, Sam Waterson, officiated the ceremony.

The nuptials got here amid Munn’s battle with breast most cancers.

In March 2024, she revealed she was recognized with breast most cancers. The 44-year-old — who shared that she acquired the prognosis a yr prior — has been open about her battle with the illness, together with expressing her gratitude towards Mulaney and their son for his or her love and assist.