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Inside the world of process serving: Explaining what happened to Olivia Wilde

Actor Jason Sudeikis says he never meant for his former fiancée to be served papers in front of thousands of spectators. But how did that happen? A process server explains the mechanics of the system.
Director and actress Olivia Wilde examines an envelope reading "Personal and Confidential" while onstage during the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas on April 26. A man from the audience had slid the mysterious envelope toward her. It turns out she had been served with legal documents in an atypically public way.

The internet is replete with opinions on what happened in the latest celebrity drama starring director and actress Olivia Wilde and former Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudeikis, and yet many questions remain.

Did Sudeikis really ask for Wilde, the mother of his children, to be served custody papers while she was onstage at the CinemaCon convention?

Do we believe the star, who is beloved for his nice-guy character, when his representatives say he"?

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