Interview: Mary-Kate Olsen Opens Up About Her Divorce in Rare Interview

A week ago, I was told that Mary-Kate Olsen and her husband Olivier Sarkozy were about to split up, so I tried to get an exclusive interview with Mary-Kate to learn all the deets of her divorce. 

Getting ahold of her was a nightmare. I tried calling her phone 62 times, but she never picked up. Not once. It was her parents who ended up giving me her super-secret private cellphone number, but only after I called them and begged for it at 2 am, then again at 3 am, and at 4 am. They gave it to me crying, and it was very difficult to understand them. 

And it was all for nothing, because when I finally reached her, she made it very clear that she had no intention of talking to me EVER, about ANYTHING, and to STOP CALLING HER PARENTS.

So I did the sensible thing to do and I stalked her. I went to her New York City apartment, where she is currently living with her soon-to-be-ex-husband, and waited for her to come outside. I was there every day, for 6 days.

But there’s a pandemic going on, so she never left her place. Not. Once. Not even to walk her dogs or do groceries, or smell the goodman flowers outside the building, that turns out, I’m highly allergic to. 

Meanwhile, I was risking my life by just being outside. On day 2 a homeless man coughed on me and I cried for 47 minutes. On day 3, it rained. It. Rained. All. Day. But on day 6, the doorman invited me to come inside…

Doorman: This is getting ridiculous. 

Bea: Excuse me?

Doorman: Don’t think that I haven’t seen you here all week. I heard you crying this morning for 2 and a half hours. 

Bea: It was raining again. You try to stay positive under those circumstances. 

[Silence]

Bea: I’m here to see the Olsen girl. She lives on the…uhmm…. 6th floor.

Doorman: Nice try, lady. 

[Silence]

Doorman: She lives on the 8th. I’ll page her. 

[Two minutes later, Mary-Kate meets me in the lobby.]

Mary-Kate: Yes?

Bea: I’m sorry to bother you. I am. But I know for a fact that you are getting a divorce and it is my job, no, my duty, to find out more about it. Can you please sit with me for five minutes and just talk to me about it?

Mary-Kate: Uh… I’m not getting a divorce.

Bea: You’re not???

Mary-Kate: No. I’m not even married. 

Bea: Cut the crap, Mary-Kate. Everyone knows you’re married to that ancient guy.

Mary-Kate: Uh…. you’ve got the wrong twin. I’m Ashley. 

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