On Wednesday’s episode of the Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky podcast, Olivia Munn claimed a movie studio offered her a seven-figure payment to keep quiet about a “traumatic incident” that took place on a film set. The actress told Lewinsky that the incident took place around the “beginning of Me Too and Time’s Up” during the “Harvey Weinstein reckoning.” While she did not describe the exact nature of the incident (or what movie set it happened on), Munn called what happened to her “really not okay,” prompting her to file a complaint with the studio. She said the studio then tried to force her to sign an NDA.
“It got to this place where I was offered a lot of money: seven figures to accept, I guess, their apology and them taking acknowledgment of it, but it came along with an NDA,” Munn said. “I said, ‘I’m not signing an NDA,’ and they said I have to.”
Munn told Lewinsky she refused to sign the NDA presented by the studio’s lawyers, describing the meeting as “disrespectful.” “Look, was it the right thing to do, and do the people in my life think that I did the right thing and are proud of me for that?” Munn said. “Yes.”
This isn’t the first time Munn, who welcomed her second child with husband John Mulaney last year, spoke up about a colleague’s predatory behavior on set. In 2017, she joined five other women in accusing director Brett Ratner of sexual harassment, alleging that the director masturbated in front of her in 2004 on the set of his movie After the Sunset. “It feels as if I keep going up against the same bully at school who just won’t quit,” she told the Los Angeles Times at the time. “You just hope that enough people believe the truth.”