Jason Sudeikis reflects on his 'opportunity to hit a rock bottom' after Olivia Wilde split

Jason Sudeikis is breaking his silence on his split from Olivia Wilde.

The "Ted Lasso" actor, who on Tuesday nabbed an Emmy nomination for lead actor in a comedy for his role on the Apple+ show, opened up publicly for the first time about not having total clarity yet about their split, which he said happened in November 2020 in a GQ interview published Tuesday.

“I'll have a better understanding of why in a year,” he said, “and an even better one in two, and an even greater one in five, and it'll go from being, you know, a book of my life to becoming a chapter to a paragraph to a line to a word to a doodle.”

He continued: "That's an experience that you either learn from or make excuses about. You take some responsibility for it, hold yourself accountable for what you do, but then also endeavor to learn something beyond the obvious from it.”

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Last November, multiple news outlets reported that Wilde and Sudeikis had ended their relationship after they began dating in 2011. They were engaged for seven years and have two children, son Otis, 7, and daughter Daisy, 4.

Soon after, Wilde sparked romance rumors with singer Harry Styles after the two were spotted holding hands and kissing on several occasions. Earlier this year, Styles filmed the upcoming psychological thriller "Don't Worry, Darling," opposite Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, KiKi Layne, Gemma Chan and Nick Kroll, which Wilde is directing. Styles' and Wilde's representatives have not responded to USA TODAY's requests for comment regarding the nature of their relationship.

Sudeikis told GQ that he and Wilde no longer share the home they owned together in Brooklyn. It was being renovated while he filmed the first season of "Ted Lasso," so Wilde and their kids "had to rent a lovely apartment in Brooklyn Heights," he said.

"But it's not home. It's someone else's home," he added, noting he and the kids returned to the house for the first time in two years recently.

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“The kids darted in,” he said. “Last time Daisy was in that house, she slept in a crib. So now she has a new big bed. It was hilarious. I walked up there after like 15 minutes and both rooms were a mess.”

Ultimately, Sudeikis sees this past year as a difficult one for his personal life, but is choosing to focus on the positives.

“I think if you have the opportunity to hit a rock bottom, however you define that, you can become 412 bones or you can land like an Avenger. I personally have chosen to land like an Avenger," he said, referencing double the amount of bones in the human body – presumably meaning the worst-case scenario would be breaking each bone in two.

"It doesn't mean when you blast back up you're not going to run into a bunch of (expletive) and have to, you know, fight things to get back to the heights that you were at, but I'd take that over 412 bones anytime.”

He added: “But there is power in creating 412 bones! Because we all know that a bone, up to a certain age, when it heals, it heals stronger. So, I mean, it's not to knock anybody that doesn't land like an Avenger. Because there's strength in that too.”

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