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John Mulaney and Olivia Munn celebrated their nuptials this summer — however, the comedian and the actress didn’t have the most conventional love story.
Mulaney, 42, and Munn, 44 first met in 2013 at Seth Meyers’ wedding. According to a recent GQ profile on the former Saturday Night Live writer and cast member., published Tuesday, November 12, this was the only time the two had met before reconnecting in 2021.
In the profile, Munn herself admitted that she and Mulaney weren’t in a relationship at the time of the announcement.
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“It wasn’t anything close to ‘dating,’ ” Munn said. “I barely knew him.” The Magic Mike actress also admitted that she didn’t imagine that she and Mulaney would get married — despite his insistence on having the child together. “It wasn’t necessarily ‘We’re going to be married and live together’ or any of that, but it was ‘I will be involved in some way.’ ”
Munn also recalled Mulaney’s early stages of leaving rehab as a tumultuous period.
“It was like watching a man in a tsunami,” she said. “I was watching someone newly sober, at the edge of a cliff, and I didn’t know him well enough to help him.”
Still, Mulaney’s troubles never seemed to be about their son. “That’s the one thing that made him seem light and happy,” she said. “I remember he was really excited to tell his parents.”
When the comedian and the actress first reconnected, Mulaney had just gotten out of rehab. In September 2021, Mulaney announced that he and Munn were expecting a baby — and given the timeline of events, fans theorized that Mulaney had cheated on his then-wife, Anna Marie Tendler. Mulaney and Tendler first began dating in early 2010 and got married in 2014. The couple announced their split in May 2021 and divorced in 2022. Upon the birth of Mulaney and Munn’s son Malcolm in November 2021, fans concluded that Malcolm was conceived about three months before Tendler and Mulaney officially split.
Tendler herself expressed shock over the news of the birth in a Harper’s Bazaar interview published January 2022.
“Everything that has transpired has been totally shocking and I think surreal,” Tendler said. “In a way, I feel like, well, it can only go up from here, because I reached the depth of where I could go.”
Munn and Mulaney got married back in July in an intimate celebration in New York City. This past September, the two welcomed daughter Méi.
