{"id":1516252,"date":"2026-06-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=92373d6c93cbd4822dd9443e3e9ef2a4"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:29:02","slug":"olivia-wilde-still-doesnt-understand-why-relationship-with-harry-styles-really-did-upset-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1516252","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Wilde still &#8216;doesn&#8217;t understand&#8217; why relationship with Harry Styles &#8216;really did upset people&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/30aedb48089b6e39b7c9202acf61821e.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>Gemma Chan, Harry Styles, Sydney Chandler and director Olivia Wilde attend the 'Don't Worry Darling' red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 5, 2022 in Venice, Italy. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Over three years after their breakup, Harry Styles' former girlfriend Olivia Wilde is addressing the fact that their relationship really made fans angry.<\/p><p>While appearing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2xLOnvD5Czc?t=5548\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Call Her Daddy<\/em> podcast,<\/a> host Alex Cooper asked&nbsp;the director and actress why she thought her romance with Harry was so \"triggering.\" \"It really did upset people,\" Olivia said, referring to the fact that she's 10 years older than Harry.<\/p><p>\"It was crazy, I don\u2019t know how much I understand it yet. That\u2019s one of the factors that I never really felt I like fully \u2026 I don\u2019t know,\" she said. \"I mean, I know that it has existed for a very long time in our society. I understand it had very little to do with me. It is something that we have ... done ... to women for a long time. Why is it? I don't know. People were f****** pissed.\u201d<\/p><p>Olivia also chalked it up to the \"kind of parasocial relationship people have\" with Harry, adding that it's a \"burden\" that he \"carries ... with grace.\"<\/p><p>She added, \"I<span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\">t's wild because, I mean, we had the loveliest relationship. Like so, so sweet and so beautiful and like, really, actually, very domestic and kind and lovely.\" She noted that she and Harry \"existed in this little bubble\" where they weren't affected by the negativity.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\">But, she acknowledged, \"It's almost like the happiness made them mad.\" She recalled how people would criticize her for attending his shows and dancing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\">Olivia and Harry started dating while he was starring in her movie <\/span><em><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\">Don't Worry Darling<\/span><\/em><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\">. They split in late 2022. Harry is now allegedly engaged to Zo\u00eb Kravitz, but neither Harry nor Zo\u00eb has confirmed that.<\/span><\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Chan, Harry Styles, Sydney Chandler and director Olivia Wilde attend the &#8216;Don&#8217;t Worry Darling&#8217; red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 5, 2022 in Venice, Italy. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto\/Getty Images)Over three years aft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":1516260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/30aedb48089b6e39b7c9202acf61821e.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 17:05:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/30aedb48089b6e39b7c9202acf61821e.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516261,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516252\/revisions\/1516261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}