Actress Olivia Wilde on her romance with Harry Styles: 'People were pissed, it also had a lot to do with...'

Acclaimed filmmaker and actor Olivia Wilde was amid a social media storm for her comments on singer and songwriter Taylor Swift’s budding and blooming romance with Travis Kelce back in 2023. The filmmaker and actress said in a statement that the attention poured on a star’s romantic life could be diverted to more pressing issues, but fans weren’t entirely pleased.

On her relationship with Harry Styles

Her own personal life came into spotlight, thanks to her relationship with Harry Styles and talking about the same in an interview recently, she was quoted saying, "I don’t know how much I understand it yet. People were f–king pissed. It also had a lot to do with the parasocial relationship people have with [Styles]. He carries it with grace. I think that is an enormous responsibility that all those stars have to carry."

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Wilde added, "There was all this public madness, but my private life was very far from it. And very, actually kind of wholesome and sweet. I had a lot of like real joy and love and happiness during that time. It was like the tornado was right outside the door and if you were inside, you were like, ‘It’s so nice,’ and then you’d open the door and a fucking like cow and a tractor would fly by."

What the actress said about Taylor Swift

‘I wish Taylor Swiftwas in love with a climate scientist,’ one of her Instagram stories read.

Actress clarifies her statement

In a statement, she said, “I meant no harm. It’s obviously a comment on how much attention gets paid to stupid things.” The 12-time Grammy Award winner took advantage of an invitation from the All-Pro tight end to see the Kansas City Chiefs play the Chicago Bears at Arrowhead Stadium.