John Mulaney says Olivia Munn randomly drug-tested him when she was six months pregnant after his rehab stint

John Mulaney says Olivia Munn randomly drug-tested him when she was six months pregnant after his rehab stint

John Mulaney has revealed his wife Olivia Munn began randomly drug-testing him when she was six months pregnant with their baby.

The Saturday Night Live alum, 42, checked himself into rehab for cocaine and alcohol dependency in December 2020.

Months later, the comedian reconnected with 44-year-old actress Munn and she fell pregnant.

Speaking to GQ’s 2024 Man of the Year on Tuesday, Mulaney recalled the “relief” he felt when Munn staged a mini-intervention and began putting him through drug tests to ensure he remained strong in his recovery journey.

“It’s like a relief... I like to be able to not even have that be a question in her or anyone else’s mind,” John said. “Something about peeing in that cup is like, I’m walking this walk. It gives me confidence.”

“I was watching someone newly sober, at the edge of a cliff, and I didn’t know him well enough to help him,” Munn added in the interview.

John Mulaney reconnected with Olivia Munn in 2021 after leaving rehab for cocaine and alcohol dependency (Eli Russell Linnetz/GQ)
John Mulaney reconnected with Olivia Munn in 2021 after leaving rehab for cocaine and alcohol dependency (Eli Russell Linnetz/GQ)

Mulaney reflected on his struggle with substance abuse with the outlet.

“There was a time when I would have told you that I could not fly, sleep, or perform unless I had a Klonopin,” he said.

“I would have said, ‘It sucks because I don’t always want to take Klonopin and Xanax, but I have to.’ ”

The comedian recalled one “insane” night at the height of his addiction when he had taken so many drugs he thought he would die.

“I thought, ‘Okay, I’m going to totally slow down’. That was like a Tuesday. And Thursday night, I did it again,” the Emmy winner said.

Also during the interview, Munn admitted she “barely knew” Mulaney and they were nowhere near close to dating when she found out she was pregnant.

The Newsroom actress met Mulaney at Seth Meyers’ wedding in 2013 and they reconnected when he got out of rehab in 2021.

Mulaney had split from his wife, Anna Marie Tendler, and Munn suggested a friend he could live with after he had moved out.

He thanked her for her help and they briefly got together, becoming pregnant shortly after.

Olivia recalled that the comic was “excited” about the baby and the duo - who were bi-coastal at the time with John in New York and Olivia in Los Angeles - talked and visited each other occasionally.

They became a couple two months before their son Malcolm's birth November 24, 2021.

The pair got married in July and welcomed their second child, Méi, in September via a surrogate.

Read the full feature “John Mulaney on Growing Up, Getting Sober, and Entering His Dad Era” by Brett Martin in GQ’s 29th Annual Men of the Year issue and on GQ.com.