John Mulaney Reveals Olivia Munn Is Pregnant, Thanks Seth Meyers for ‘Saving’ His Life

John Mulaney sat down along with his shut pal Seth Meyers on Tuesday night time to open up about his latest struggles with substance abuse, his newfound triumphs, and to announce that he’s anticipating his first little one with actress Olivia Munn.

“I obtained into this relationship that’s been actually lovely with somebody unbelievable who has handled the non-coked-up Bambi model of me and that’s been very unbelievable,” Mulaney mentioned. “She’s form of held my hand via that hell and we’re having a child collectively.”

The 39-year-old recapped his chaotic previous yr for Meyers, explaining how he beforehand went to rehab for alcohol and cocaine abuse in September, and when he was launched in October, he moved out of the house he shared along with his ex-wife Anna Marie Tendler, earlier than internet hosting Saturday Evening Dwell on Halloween.

“I relapsed on medicine after the present, in a roundabout way after. I simply imply, properly, after goodnights,” Mulaney awkwardly laughed, later admitting he was on the top of his relapse whereas engaged on Late Evening with Seth Meyers. Following a downward spiral, his associates, together with Meyers and fellow comic Fred Armisen, staged an intervention that fall.

“I stroll into the intervention, and I’m so mad,” Mulaney mentioned, including he was two hours late as a result of he had stopped by Saturday Evening Dwell’s hair division to get a free haircut whereas he was excessive.

“I didn’t need an intervention, I wished to proceed,” he mentioned. “At that second in time, I wished to proceed utilizing medicine. Sitting right here tonight, I’m so grateful to you and to everybody there for saving my life. That night time, I used to be not grateful. And but, as mad as I used to be, I appeared round on the group and I used to be like, this can be a good group. It was like a We Are the World of other comedians over the age of 40.”

Mulaney was in rehab for 2 months till February, then accomplished a keep in outpatient sober care. By the spring, he had begun relationship Munn, who he first met at Meyers’ wedding ceremony to Alexi Ashe in 2013.

The new couple was romantically linked in May, noticed grabbing lunch in Los Angeles. Their sighting got here the identical month that Mulaney introduced his break up from Tendler, his spouse of practically seven years, and he filed for divorce in July. After leaving rehab Mulaney returned to the stage and commenced touring for his acclaimed new stand-up present “From Scratch,” which discusses his divorce and struggles with substance abuse.

Mulaney has lengthy been open about his battles with alcoholism and drug abuse, telling Esquire in 2019 that he first started drinking when he was 13 years old, and turned to drugs shortly after. “I drank for consideration,” he mentioned. “I used to be actually outgoing, after which at 12, I wasn’t. I didn’t know the way to act. After which I used to be ingesting, and I used to be hilarious once more…I by no means favored smoking pot. Then I attempted cocaine, and I beloved it. I wasn’t a very good athlete, so perhaps it was some younger male factor of, ‘That is the bodily feat I can do. Three Vicodin and a tequila and I’m nonetheless standing. Who’s the athlete now?’”

Mulaney beforehand admitted the pandemic had taken a drastic toll on his psychological well being and led him down a slippery slope along with his substance abuse. However now, Mulaney mentioned he’s relieved and pleased to be on his journey of restoration.

“I like you Seth,” he instructed Meyers on the finish of his look. “You guys saved me from medicine and Olivia and this child have helped save me from myself. I don’t have a joke for that. I’m actually grateful to you buddy.”