Olivia Wilde Recalled Being Bullied For Her “Devastating” Real Last Name

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In lawsuit you didn't know, Olivia is the girl of journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, which means — you guessed it — her existent sanction is Olivia Jane Cockburn. (She chose the signifier sanction "Wilde" arsenic a tribute to the Irish poet, Oscar Wilde.)

Olivia's parents are accomplished successful their field, and truthful it's nary astonishment that Dax decided to bring them up. But, earlier the speech adjacent got going, Olivia called him retired connected his mispronunciation of her existent past name.

"I'll archer you thing — and there's nary mode you would cognize this — it's pronounced 'Coburn,'" Olivia told Dax. “I privation you to ideate being a kid, erstwhile you’re… Because it’s spelled 'Cockburn!'"

Explaining that the pronunciation comes from the name's Scottish origins, Olivia said that having "Cockburn" arsenic a past sanction was "character building" for her and her siblings increasing up.

"I deliberation it's important — we should each springiness our kids devastating mediate names conscionable truthful that you tin turn up with similar thing to beryllium wholly bullied for," she said, adding that the puerility teasing was "an aboriginal important acquisition successful laughing along." "Not successful a mode that was, like, giving into the bullies successful a way. I don't know. I thought it was comic too. I was like, 'Oh, I get it. That’s funny.'"

When Dax suggested that the teasing mightiness not beryllium arsenic atrocious today, Olivia had to disagree. "I deliberation having the past sanction that looks similar 'Cockburn' successful immoderate metropolis successful immoderate decade…," she said, to which Dax agreed: "It's excessively easy."

"You’re ever gonna larn to laughter early," Olivia added.

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