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Olivia Wilde’s love life is certainly not as mundane as salad dressing, and yet the condiment has made its way into the drama.

Her directorial debut for the movie Don’t Worry Darling picked up so many melodramatic headlines that it was called “the Most Scandalous Movie of the Year” by one publication before it even aired in theatres.

The scandal is largely centred around Olivia and her new lover, super popstar Harry Styles, and how she seemed to have pursued him while still tied down by her ex-husband Jason Sudeikis.

Just recently the Daily Mail published an interview with Olivia and Jason’s former nanny, who made a few shocking claims about the breakdown of their relationship, reported BuzzFeed News:

The nanny — who remains anonymous — looked after Olivia and Jason’s two children, 8-year-old Otis and 6-year-old Daisy, for three years and provided the publication with purported text conversations between her and the former couple.

In the interview, the nanny alleged that Olivia “left” her family to pursue her now-boyfriend, Harry Styles, and repeatedly claimed that Olivia’s pursuit of Harry began while she and Jason were still an item.

Olivia and Jason got engaged in 2013 and split in November 2020, two months before Olivia was romantically linked to Harry.

Olivia has insisted that there was no overlap between the two men, but the nanny has a different version of events:

“On the Monday morning [of] Nov. 9, when I came back from a weekend off, [Jason] was crying a lot, crying and crying. I didn’t know what had happened at all,” she claimed. “After I’d got the kids ready, Jason came upstairs and was having some coffee. He was crying and a mess, saying, ‘She left us. She left us!’”

Jason allegedly learned about Olivia and Harry’s relationship through text messages that he’d seen on Olivia’s Apple Watch.

Enter the salad dressing:

The nanny also recounted the moment that Jason saw Olivia prepare a salad for Harry using her “special dressing” at their family home and became so upset by it that he “went outside and lay under her car so she wouldn’t leave.”

Olivia “went back into the house and he went in, it was back and forth. He said he was doing it on purpose to make her late going to see Harry,” the nanny alleged.

PEOPLE then released a statement from Jason and Olivia, detailing how the nanny had been running an “18-month long campaign” of harassment against them and said this story was “false and scurrilous”:

“As parents, it is incredibly upsetting to learn that a former nanny of our two young children would choose to make such false and scurrilous accusations about us publicly,” the former couple said in a statement on Monday. “Her now 18 month long campaign of harassing us, as well as loved ones, close friends and colleagues, has reached its unfortunate apex.”

But then Olivia posted a salad dressing recipe on her Instagram story on Tuesday night, which turns out to be taken from a classic novel about divorce:

Wilde’s post featured a photo from a page in Nora Ephron’s 1983 Roman à clef, Heartburn — based on the author’s divorce from Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein — in which the main character divulges a recipe for a salad dressing she makes for her husband.

“Mix 2 tablespoons Grey Poupon mustard with 2 tablespoons good red wine vinegar. Then, whisk constantly with a fork, slowly add 6 tablespoons olive oil, until the vinaigrette is thick and creamy; this makes a very strong vinaigrette that’s perfect for salad greens like arugula and watercress and endive,” the recipe read, in part.

The media and social sites are going wild over this salad dressing post:

is it just me or does olivia posting the salad dressing recipe make it seem like the nanny’s story was true …

— lauren (@eversincedc) October 19, 2022

olivia wilde’s salad dressing being from Heartburn, a book/movie based on Nora Ephron learning her husband was cheating on her… that’s cold

— tomfoolery (@sufjanjr) October 19, 2022

Olivia is close to that dressing, having shared a similar one during an appearance on Questlove’s Potluck on the Food Network in 2020.

Perhaps she is trying to prove that she can commit to something.

[source:people&buzzfeednews]