Olivia Munn
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Who is Olivia Munn and what challenges has she faced?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky early and ad free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple podcasts, or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, everyone. For today's episode, I spoke with my brave and brilliant friend, Olivia Munn. We met over a decade ago and bonded over all things woo-woo. So crystals, astrology, we just got into deep, real conversation really quickly, which is kind of the way I like to do it. You probably know her as an actor and an activist. And if you're on social media, you'd also know her as the mom to adorable Malcolm and May. Because Olivia and I are close, I knew about her struggle with breast cancer in real time.
But to hear her heartbreaking and inspiring story in the details that she shared in our conversation, it meant so much to me and made me admire her even more. And for any fans of the newsroom, we went there too. So anyway, I hope you find something to connect to in our chat. And thanks for joining us on Reclaiming. Thank you to our presenting sponsor, Audible. Visit audible.com slash reclaiming to find your next listen. Thank you to our sponsor, Reformation. Visit reformation.com to see why they're my go-to for stylish and sustainable fashion. Thank you for being here. I'm so happy to be here. I was so excited when you called. Aw, thanks. I was thinking about, you know, in having this chat, thinking about how we met. Oh my gosh, so long ago.
I know, at the Vanity Fair Oscar party. And then you came over not that long after and you brought me these lovely, it was like Jungian psychology books by... Robert Johnson, I think.
He and she.
Exactly. And we. Yes, he, she, we. He, she, we. And I loved that.
So I love like either books or candles. Well, you know, when I walked into, I have not been, by that point, I had not been someone who was really into warning, trigger warning crystals. Yeah. Like people were like, um, and, and I, I approached it scientifically, um, not in a very, you like to use the word woo. Um, and I, I never, I wasn't into that until then really right around that time. And, um, And when I went into your apartment in New York, there was crystals everywhere. And I was like, okay, we're going to get each other. That's why the Robert A. Johnson books resonated with me because he was a student of Carl Jung. He was a famous Swiss psychiatrist. So it was those things that kind of got me into understanding my –
Choices in life and my own psyche then once I kind of understood a little bit more about myself I wanted to expand and and into a lot of different things that I was trying to do to try to Heal myself for things. I had no idea or broken Crystals was really just a way to get into my own spirituality and So, yeah, when I walked into your apartment, I was like, okay, we're going to have a shorthand, which we always have. I know, which has been so nice. You know, when I came up to you, we talked about this later, but I had seen you. I know that you were doing a lot with bullying. And that made me so excited because I had this idea that never came to fruition. Right. But I thought a lot about myself when I was younger and bullying. and getting bullied because I was in a military family. So we moved around a lot. So constantly like the new kid. And there were times where if you looked on paper, it would seem like,
by the accolades I might've gotten in school that, oh, life was easy, but there was enough bullying that it really changed how I think I approached adulthood as well and how I think back on those times. I had this idea that it was like, there's make a wish, right? For these kids who are going through such unimaginable health issues and they get to meet like their favorite athletes or celebrities and singers and actors and... It's such a wonderful organization. And I was like, man, I would love something for kids who are being bullied because the mental health is just as important as physical health.
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