Olivia Munn inadvertently sparked backlash from Ms. Rachel followers after she admitted to not letting her youngsters watch the favored YouTube star’s movies.
“I do know youngsters love [Ms. Rachel], however the factor is, if I can’t watch it, I’m not going to spend the remainder of my life going loopy,” Munn, 44, advised Individuals of her younger youngsters, Malcolm, 3, and Mei, 8 months, in a June 2025 interview which has since been taken down on-line. “These child exhibits drive me loopy.”
Munn’s feedback shortly led to debate amongst Ms. Rachel followers, with some fellow mothers claiming the actress was “egocentric” for not contemplating the emotional wants and growth of her youngsters.
To make issues extra difficult, Ms. Rachel, actual identify Rachel Accurso, responded to Munn’s interview by sharing that she’d moderately headlines give attention to her advocacy for kids in battle zones than a celeb’s private opinion of her.
So what began as a touch upon youngsters’s media then launched right into a political tit-for-tat, which led Munn’s husband, John Mulaney, to enter the chat.
Under, make amends for all the pieces that occurred between Munn and Ms. Rachel:
Olivia Munn attends the 2025 Astra TV Awards at SLS Resort, a Luxurious Assortment Resort, Beverly Hills on June 10, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Photos
Olivia Munn Says Reveals Like ‘Ms. Rachel’ Make Her ‘Loopy’
In an interview with Individuals, Munn mentioned that she doesn’t let her son, Malcolm, and daughter, Mei, watch Ms. Rachel’s “Songs for Littles” movies. (Ms. Rachel’s YouTube and Netflix content material is beloved by many mother and father and youngsters because it famously helps with language growth.)
“I do know youngsters love [Ms. Rachel], however the factor is, if I can’t watch it, I’m not going to spend the remainder of my life going loopy. These child exhibits drive me loopy,” she mentioned. “Malcolm requested for Blue’s Clues [recently], and I don’t know who confirmed him Blue’s Clues, however they’re on my s*** listing now. I mentioned, ‘Hell no. Not in my home.’”
Munn went on to say that the one present she and Mulaney, 42, contemplate displaying at house is PBS’ Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood because it helped Malcolm alter to turning into an enormous brother. “’Daniel Tiger has just a little sister, and we’d inform him, ‘There’s a child sister coming,’’’ she mentioned, including that it was a “nice program.”
Her feedback instantly went viral, with Ms. Rachel followers and fellow mothers criticizing her for being a “self-centered mum or dad.”
“Limiting display time is nice! However making your child solely watch stuff you have an interest in is bizarre and fairly self-centered parenting imo,” one individual mentioned on Reddit.
One other added, “So, she doesn’t need her youngsters to have entry to age acceptable (academic within the case of my woman Ms. Rachel) programming simply because it isn’t made for her, an grownup?”
“What a depressing strategy to mum or dad a baby,” one other consumer wrote. “I perceive that there are some exhibits (Cocomelon is one) which are each annoying and do nothing to advertise studying, however Ms. Rachel? Blue’s Clues?? Ma’am. Perhaps you shouldn’t have had a child should you didn’t need to truly increase that baby and allow them to have infantile pursuits. That is a particularly egocentric take.”
Ms. Rachel attends the Sesame Workshop 2024 Profit Gala at Cipriani forty second Road on Might 29, 2024 in New York Metropolis. Getty Photos
Ms. Rachel Reacts to Olivia Munn’s Feedback by Questioning Press Protection
Ms. Rachel responded to Munn’s take by sharing her frustrations with press retailers highlighting her present vs. her political advocacy.
“WHO CARES?! I’d moderately you cowl me advocating for youths in Gaza who’re actually ravenous, largest cohort of kid amputees in fashionable historical past, hundreds & hundreds killed — no medical care, no schooling, no houses… do higher!!!” she shared through Instagram alongside a picture of two articles from Mother and father and Individuals. “***Not in opposition to [Munn] in any respect and don’t care that she doesn’t need to watch the present — all my like to her and her household — disillusioned within the retailers.”
She turned her social media feedback off.
Olivia Munn Apologizes for Her Feedback on Kids’s Media
Quickly after Ms. Rachel’s response, Munn shared a message through her Instagram Tales, writing, “To Ms. Rachel and her followers, I hear and respect the fervour behind your assist. I by no means anticipated the media would single out one small factor I mentioned and warp it like they’ve.”
She added: “My feedback have been by no means meant to decrease the enjoyment, consolation and influence she brings to so many households. Each mum or dad understands the significance of discovering significant programming that helps us join with our youngsters. I don’t need one thing taken out of context to be a second that steals even a minute of pleasure for anybody.”
Mother-shamers continued coming for Munn, nevertheless, regardless of her apology.
Olivia Munn and John Mulaney attend “An Unforgettable Night” Benefiting the Ladies’s Most cancers Analysis Fund at The Beverly Hilton on April 28, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. Getty Photos
John Mulaney Enters the Chat and Defends Olivia Munn
Mulaney issued an announcement through his Instagram Story as his spouse’s feedback continued to realize consideration and spark backlash.
“An harmless remark my spouse Olivia Munn made about what youngsters’s applications we like has by some means — unbelievably — been conflated with not caring in regards to the deaths of youngsters in Gaza,” he wrote. “Due to this, my spouse and my two youngsters at the moment are receiving violent and threatening feedback and messages in her DMs.”
Mulaney continued to name out the “completely insane” trolling, insisting that it “must cease.” He famous that the folks sending the alleged threats are “so wildly out of line and so unhelpful to any dialog” being had about what’s occurring on this planet.
“You took a nothing remark to a darkish and harmful place,” he concluded. “This sort of habits isn’t activism.”
Ms. Rachel Helps Olivia Munn and Her Household
Following Mulaney’s heartfelt plea, Ms. Rachel as soon as once more shared a publish through Instagram on the matter.
“Please be sort to Olivia & her treasured household,” she wrote. I don’t imagine in hate, assaults or hurtful feedback. As I mentioned in my first publish, this isn’t about her. It was that I scroll & see tales that don’t matter whereas seeing that youngsters’s immeasurable struggling is being ignored — it breaks me.”
Ms. Rachel added that no feud exists between her and Munn and that they’ve “been in contact and we’re each selecting kindness.”
“This isn’t taking place however I additionally am not for canceling individuals who make errors. (She simply shared an opinion which is ok.) All of us make errors and battle and misspeak and do lovely, sort issues as a result of it’s arduous to be a human. It’s actually arduous,” Ms. Rachel wrote alongside her publish.