Olivia Munn Says She Was Pressured by Studio to Sign 'Disrespectful' NDA About 'Traumatic' Experience on Set

Olivia Munn opened up about a “traumatic” experience that she went through while working on a project and how the studio responded.

The 44-year-old actress appeared on the Reclaiming podcast this week and said that she was offered a substantial payout from the studio. However, the offer came with the requirement that she sign a nondisclosure agreement.

She revealed her response and what she recalled about the experience.

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Olivia didn’t specify what movie she was talking about and didn’t name the studio. However, she noted that the situation happened around the time of the #MeToo movement and the “Harvey Weinstein reckoning that began it all.”

“There were other things that happened on this movie set personally to me that were really not ok. And it was so traumatic that I had to file complaints with the studio,” she said.

She continued, saying, “I had to file complaints with the studio, and there’s a lot of other little things that go along with it, but it got to this place where I was offered a lot of money.”

“Seven figures to accept I guess their apology and them taking acknowledgement of it, but it came along with an NDA,” Olivia recalled. “Not that I would ever have talked about it truly because I just wanted to move past it all. And that’s why I don’t want to talk about the specific things that happened in that situation. But I said, ‘I’m not signing an NDA,’ and they said, ‘You have to.’”

She said that the requirement of an NDA felt “so wrong,” adding, And this was when people were targeting anyone who signed an NDA saying, ‘Oh, you only did it for the money.’ So I was afraid that my voice and speaking up would reverse any kind of validity to my voice.”

Olivia recalled attending a meeting with her lawyer and the studio about the offer and instantly told her lawyer that she wasn’t interested in the “disrespectful” offer.

“I did not think about negotiating. I did not think about anything besides how disrespectful that was. So when they came in, I said to my lawyer, ‘I want to say it,’” she recalled. When the studio pointed out the size of the payout, she said, “I said to them, ‘I know this is a lot of money to you. But it is not a lot of money to me to lose my voice.’ And we walked out of there. I remember feeling so proud when I walked out.”

“I remember feeling so proud when I walked out — so proud of myself,” she added.

If you missed it, Olivia recently made a surprising revelation about her relationship with husband John Mulaney.