Tom Cruise thought it was "f***** up" when Olivia Wilde was served custody papers on stage at CinemaCon.

The 42-year-old actress-and-director was promoting her psychological thriller Don't Worry Darling at the Las Vegas event in April 2022 when she was handed legal documents from a woman, which it later emerged were documents connected with her legal situation with former partner Jason Sudeikis over their kids Otis, 12, and nine-year-old Daisy.

Despite no phones being allowed in the room, the moment went viral, and Olivia was stunned some time later to learn it had caught the eye of the Mission: Impossible actor.

Speaking on the Call Her Daddy podcast, she said: ""I will never forget one of the most f***** up things I went through, among so many, was that I was served papers on stage.

"Obviously, it was incredibly traumatising. There's so many elements to that.

"I get through it because, weirdly, as women we're taught to muscle through the most insane experiences. I was like, 'Just finish your speech'.

"[I] got through it, went backstage [and] completely dissolved into a puddle. But then, I thought no one saw it because there's no phones allowed in this event.

"A couple months later, I had the chance [to meet] Tom Cruise. And he was like, 'Hi, I'm Tom. F***** up what happened to you in Vegas.' I was like, 'No!' "

Despite feeling humiliated at the time, Olivia thinks she ultimately came out stronger.

She said: "Once you make it through things like that, you kind of feel like you can make it through anything."

Although Olivia later accused Jason of trying to "embarrass" and "threaten" her with the filing in her court documents a few months later, she now believes the Ted Lasso actor didn't intend for her to get served on stage.

She said: "Jason has told me that he did not know. I need to believe that in order to continue."

The Tron: Legacy actress - who was in a relationship with Jason, 50, from 2011 to 2020 - noted lawyers in such disputes can be "super f***** up and do f***** up things."

She added: "I think that people are never their best selves when they're engaging in that kind of process. It was so f***** up in so many ways.

"I know that whether or not he knew it was going to happen, I know it really hurt him to see it happening to me."

Jason previously denied having any knowledge of where and when his ex-partner would be served custody papers.

A spokesperson said: "Mr. Sudeikis had no prior knowledge of the time or place that the envelope would have been delivered as this would solely be up to the process service company involved and he would never condone her being served in such an inappropriate manner."