Since the comedian and the Newsroom alum archetypal started dating successful 2021, they’ve had a whirlwind respective years together, including getting married, having 2 children—son Malcolm, 3, and daughter Méi, 2 months—and Olivia battling bosom cancer. And done it all, their enslaved has lone grown stronger.
"We recovered ourselves successful a beauteous chaotic and a beauteous joyful situation," John exclusively told E! News analogous Will Marfuggi astatine GQ's Men of the Year enactment Nov. 14. "So we've had a truly eventful, astonishing mates years with a batch of you know, dealing with Olivia's crab and a batch of choky and scary moments sometimes."
"But we were talking the different time that, similar successful the past mates years, we've laughed truthful overmuch done everything," helium continued. "So I don't mean to dependable corny oregon overly saccharine, but it's conscionable been really...we've been truthful choky and had a batch of fun, contempt everything." (For much with John, tune into E! News Monday, Nov. 18 astatine 11 p.m.)
The 42-year-old besides recalled the infinitesimal that helium and Olivia recovered retired that helium was going to beryllium honored arsenic 1 of GQ's Men of the Year for 2024.
"She was truthful psyched," helium shared. "We were some thrilled. Yeah, she's ever successful my corner, and she was truthful excited. We were successful a driveway together, making definite our lad didn't tally into a parking batch erstwhile I got the news. It was precise cool."
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The mates hasn't been shy astir detailing the antithetic aboriginal stages of their relationship, with Olivia recently saying that their presumption arsenic a mates "wasn’t thing adjacent to ‘dating'" erstwhile she archetypal got pregnant.
"I hardly knew him," she told GQ. "It wasn’t needfully ‘We’re going to beryllium joined and unrecorded together’ oregon immoderate of that, but it was ‘I volition beryllium progressive successful immoderate way.’"
Olivia, 44, and John officially became a mates six months into her gestation portion they were surviving connected other coasts—she was successful LA, helium was successful New York—which came arsenic the Everybody's In LA prima was inactive uncovering his footing aft a months-long enactment successful rehab for addiction.
"It was similar watching a antheral successful a tsunami,” the actress explained. “I was watching idiosyncratic recently sober, astatine the borderline of a cliff, and I didn’t cognize him good capable to assistance him."
"In my head, I’m thinking, 'I don’t cognize truly what’s happening with this guy. It feels beauteous shaky,'” she continued. “But past I would spot him astatine the Troubadour and beryllium like, ‘Man, he’s connected fire. He’s conscionable that phenomenal.'"
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