Hollywood has never been short on dirty secrets, but Olivia Munn refused to be part of the cover-up. The Newsroom and New Girl actress revealed on Monica Lewinsky’s Reclaiming podcast that she once rejected a seven-figure offer to stay silent about a “traumatic” experience on a movie set.
She didn’t name names, didn’t point fingers at a particular film, but she made it clear—this wasn’t just another bad day at work.
The Offer She Walked Away From
“There were things that happened on this movie set, personally to me, that were really not OK,” Munn said. “It was so traumatic that I had to file complaints with the studio.”
Then came the hush money. The studio didn’t just want to say sorry—they wanted to pay for silence.
“A lot of money, seven figures,” she admitted. But the cash came with a catch: a non-disclosure agreement.
“Not that I would have ever talked about it, truly, because I just wanted to move past it all,” she said. “But I wasn’t going to sign an NDA.”
The studio insisted. She refused.
“It was the beginning of the #MeToo era and Time’s Up … when people were targeting anyone who signed an NDA, saying, ‘Oh, you only did it for the money.’” Munn wasn’t about to give them that leverage.
Her lawyer urged her to think it over, but she didn’t need time. She wanted to say no herself.
“One person said to me, ‘This is a lot of money, you’d be crazy not to take this,’” she recalled. “And I said to him, ‘I know this is a lot of money to you, but it is not a lot of money for me to lose my voice.’”
She walked out of the meeting feeling victorious. And then? The plot twist.
The Law Stepped In
“Shortly after that, California made NDAs illegal,” Munn laughed. If she’d signed the deal, it wouldn’t have meant a damn thing.
She doesn’t regret her decision, but she admits it wasn’t a purely strategic move.
“I made that decision based on anger, and that’s something I’ve had to learn to rein in and use for my benefit,” she said. “I’ve learned to think about things and take the time and talk it out.”
Hollywood’s Long History of Looking the Other Way
This isn’t Munn’s first time speaking out about Hollywood’s underbelly.
In 2017, she was one of six women to accuse director Brett Ratner of sexual harassment, claiming he masturbated in front of her when she visited the set of After the Sunset in 2004.
And in 2018, while filming The Predator, she went straight to 20th Century Fox after learning she’d been cast opposite a registered sex offender—who just so happened to be director Shane Black’s longtime friend.
Her refusal to play along with Hollywood’s culture of silence hasn’t always made her popular. But Munn doesn’t seem too worried about being liked.
She’s too busy making sure no one else has to sign an NDA just to move on.
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Last modified: February 21, 2025
