Olivia Munn Says She Was Offered Over $1 Million to Stay Silent About a “Traumatic” Movie Set Incident
Olivia Munn recently revealed that she was offered a seven-figure payout in exchange for her silence about a disturbing experience on a movie set.
During her appearance on Monica Lewinsky’s Reclaiming podcast on Tuesday, the Predator actress opened up about how her difficult childhood shaped her values—especially her strong sense of justice—and how that influenced her career choices.
Munn shared that she was relentlessly bullied as a child, which made her “really feisty” and deeply committed to standing up for what’s right.
“So things were really black and white for me,” she explained. “I would make decisions without always thinking them through. I just saw things as ‘this is wrong’ or ‘this is right,’ without considering the gray areas.”
One example of this mindset in her adult life, she said, was when she faced mistreatment on an unnamed film project.
“There were things that happened to me on this movie set that were really not okay—so traumatic that I had to file complaints with the studio,” she told Lewinsky.
Munn didn’t go into specifics but mentioned that she noticed multiple red flags on set.
“It reached a point where they offered me a lot of money,” she revealed. “Seven figures—as a way to get me to accept their apology and acknowledge what happened.”
But there was a catch—the offer came with a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
“Not that I would have ever talked about it, because I just wanted to move on,” she clarified. “But when they said, ‘You have to sign an NDA,’ I just felt like that was so wrong.”
Munn said the situation felt particularly upsetting because it happened during the height of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.
“This was right when the Harvey Weinstein reckoning was happening,” she explained. “People were criticizing anyone who signed NDAs, saying, ‘Oh, you only did it for the money.’ I was afraid that if I spoke up, my voice would be discredited.”
She also worried that if she signed the NDA, the studio might leak it to the press to undermine her credibility.
Despite meeting with the studio’s lawyers, Munn ultimately turned down the offer.
“I told my lawyer, ‘I’m not taking it,’” she recalled. “He wanted me to think about it, but I said, ‘No—I want to say no right now!’”
Looking back, Munn admitted she acted on impulse.
“That’s part of my feistiness—I was so frustrated that they would even offer me money to stay silent that I didn’t think about negotiating or anything else. All I could think about was how disrespectful it was.”
The studio’s lawyers thought she was crazy for walking away from the money, but Munn had no regrets.
“I told them, ‘I know this is a lot of money to you, but it’s not worth losing my voice,’” she said. “And I walked out of there feeling so proud of myself.”
Even though she stands by her decision, she admits the experience was a learning moment.
“Did I make the right choice? Yes. Are the people in my life proud of me for it? Yes,” she said. “But I’ve also learned how to channel my emotions better and use them to my advantage.”
This isn’t the first time Munn has spoken out about mistreatment in Hollywood.
In her 2010 essay collection, Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek, she alleged that director Brett Ratner had masturbated in front of her on a film set in 2004. While she initially didn’t name him, she later came forward after more women accused him of sexual misconduct.
Then, in 2018, Munn publicly condemned the casting of a convicted sex offender in The Predator. She successfully got a scene with Steven Wilder Striegel—a close friend of director Shane Black—cut from the film after discovering he had previously pleaded guilty to two felonies.
