John Mulaney Details Staying Sober Amid Oliva Munn's Cancer Treatment
Originally appeared on E! Online
would be the first to admit he's come a long way.
In fact, the former Saturday Night Live writer recently shared the moment he realized how much progress he'd made in his sobriety journey while helping wife Olivia Munn through her breast cancer journey.
'I remember one day she's in bed. She had the 10-hour double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, and she still has more to go,' John, 42, recalled to Ted Danson on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast May 21. 'And I brought her a tray with apple juice, something she wanted to eat that her mom had made in the kitchen, and then it had Oxycodone and some sort of nerve medication and a Xanax, which they also gave just for rest and recovery.'
'I'm walking, I go, 'Oh it never crossed my mind that I was holding these medications in my hand,'' John—who has been public about his former addiction to alcohol and cocaine—continued. 'The obsession of it was gone. I thought, 'Oh, I'm so far beyond that and I can be a good butler with the best client.''
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John—who shares kids Malcolm, 3, and Mei, 8 months, with Olivia—also spoke to his surprise that he was able to commit to his sober lifestyle amid his wife's breast cancer diagnosis, which came just three years into his sobriety journey.
'I will admit it's a huge change,' the Everybody's Live host added. 'Just a huge way of looking at everything. And I'm shocked I did it. I'm shocked I was able to do it. Become sober. To actually stick to it in every way. To not have, 'Well I still do this.' Nothing wrong or shameful about relapse, I'm shocked always that it landed.'
For John, his sobriety allowed him to be present for Olivia—who publicly shared her breast cancer diagnosis in 2023—and their children while she recovered from multiple surgeries.
'[I'm] always so addicted to the self-control of it in some ways,' he shared. 'And so happy that I'm always present when I'm with my kids and Olivia and friends and everything.'
And while he's able to look at his recovery with pride, it pales in comparison to the pride he feels for his wife and how she showed up for herself during her health battle.
'I always look back to when she was diagnosed in April, through that whole year, she wasn't just courageous. She was fun,' he said. 'We had so much fun, it was so weird. So, it wasn't just the courage of it. She also was just always her greatest, best self throughout it.'
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