Olivia Munn was offered 7 figures for NDA to hide ‘traumatic’ incident

Olivia Munn made an appearance on the podcast Reclaiming with host Monica Lewinsky where she revealed a bizarre offer from a studio to sign an NDA.

“I had to file complaints with the studio, and there’s a lot of other little things that go along with it, but it got to this place where I was offered a lot of money,” she said, “Seven figures to accept I guess their apology and them taking acknowledgement of it, but it came along with an NDA. Not that I ever would talk about it truly, because I wanted to move past it all. But I said I’m not signing an NDA, and they said I have to.”

“I just felt it was so wrong,” the actress continued, “And at this time specifically, this was in the beginning of #MeToo and Times Up. This was like the reckoning, the Harvey Weinstein reckoning that began it all. This was that time period, and this was when people were targeting anyone who signed an NDA saying, ‘Oh, you only did it for the money,’ so I was afraid that my voice and speaking up would reverse any kind of validity to my voice.”

She ultimately decided to turn down the offer, “I remember feeling so proud when I walked out — so proud of myself. I did not think about negotiating. I did not think about anything besides how disrespectful that was… 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? Yes. It’s not that I wouldn’t have ended up with the same decision, it’s that I made that decision based on anger, and that is something I had to learn how to rein in and use for my benefit.”

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