Olivia Wilde responds to accusations she’s abandoned her kids since dating Harry Styles

The actress has hit back at accusations she’s “abandoned” her children since leaving ex Jason Sudeikis for Harry Styles.

Olivia Wilde is clapping back at haters who think she has “abandoned” her two children.

The actress told Elle in her November 2022 cover story, published Thursday, that she gets slammed when she’s “photographed not with” son Otis, 8, and daughter Daisy, 6.

“I share custody of my kids with my ex,” she clarified, referencing Jason Sudeikis.

“People assume I have abandoned my kids, like my kids are just somewhere in a hot car without me,” the Don’t Worry Darling director, 38, continued. “The suggestion is that I have abandoned my role as a mother.”

Wilde explained that the public doesn’t see her with the little ones because she “doesn’t let them get photographed.”

She concluded by asking, “Do you know the lengths that I go to protect my kids from being seen by you?”

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Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis with Daisy and Otis in 2018. (Photo by Presley Ann/WireImage)

The Booksmart director, who went public with her relationship with Harry Styles in 2021, has previously voiced her frustrations with the parenting police as a working mum on the dating scene.

“When people see me not with my kids, it’s always ‘How dare she,’” she said in an August interview with Variety.

“I’ve never seen anyone say that about a guy,” the House alum continued. “And if he is with his kid, he’s a f***ing hero.”

Wilde went on to call Otis and Daisy her “world” and her “best friends,” adding that she recently took time off work to be more present with them.

“It was time for me to pause and devote myself to the kids when I have them,” she said. “This year was a time for me to be a stay-at-home mom. It was not the year for me to be on a set, which is totally all-encompassing.”

Olivia Wilde is seen leaving "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on September 21, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Raymond Hall/GC Images)

Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde pack on the PDA after a date night in New York City. Picture: TheImageDirect.com

She and Sudeikis, who got engaged in 2013, welcomed Otis and Daisy in 2014 and 2016, respectively.

The former couple called it quits amid the coronavirus pandemic, publicly sharing their break-up in November 2020.

Wilde and the 47-year-old actor have since been fighting for custody of their children.

All photos by Cass Bird for Elle

In April, their court battle made headlines when Wilde was served papers while speaking at CinemaCon.

She called the “Saturday Night Live” alum’s move “appalling” and “vicious” in a Variety interview four months later.

“Sadly, it was not something that was entirely surprising to me,” Wilde told the magazine in August. “I mean, there’s a reason I left that relationship.”

This article was originally published by Page Six and reproduced with permission