As a recent father of two, John Mulaney is dedicated staying awake with his help his wife, Olivia Munn.

In GQ’s Men of the Year cover story introducing the 42-year-old comedian, published online Tuesday, Mulaney and Munn shared some details about their family of four and what it took to get to a place where Mulaney says she “spends the best time of life”.

Although Mulaney’s star-studded intervention implying Fred Armisen, Nick Kroll, Natasha Lyonne and Seth Meyers became folklore, in the GQ piece Munn said about her role in Mulaney’s sobriety journey.

Munn told GQ that he staged an intervention for Mulaney when she was six months pregnant with their son. Malcolm Hiep Mulaneywho is almost 3 years old. Together, the couple decided they would administer random drug tests — a practice they continue, which bolsters Mulaney’s confidence.

“It’s like a relief,” Mulaney said. “I love that it can’t even be a question on her or anyone else’s mind. Something about peeing in that cup is like, I’m going for this ride. It gives me confidence.”

Mulaney was in rehab from December 2020 to February 2021, thanks in part to the intervention his friends staged, with an addiction to cocaine, Adderall, Xanax, Klonopin and Percocet. Next month would mark four years of sobriety for the Emmy winner.”Baby J“comedian and has been asked to be a part of several interventions for other people, he told GQ.

“It was like watching a man in a tsunami,” Munn said of her partner’s addiction recovery. “I was looking at someone newly sober on the edge of a cliff, and I didn’t know him well enough to help him.”

“In my mind, I’m thinking, I don’t really know what’s going on with this guy. He feels pretty shaky,” she says. “But then I’d see him at the Troubadour and I’d be like, ‘Man, he’s on fire.’ He is so phenomenal.” “

Expecting a baby boy was a bright spot for Mulaney during that time, Munn said: “That’s the only thing that made it seem light and happy. I remember he was very excited to tell his parents.”

Olivia Munn “barely met” John Mulaney when she was pregnant with their first child

Years after first meeting at Meyers’ wedding in 2013, Munn and Mulaney reconnected in 2021, when Mulaney was looking for a place to live in New York after leaving rehab.

“It was nothing close to a ‘date,'” Munn explained to GQ. – I barely met him.

When they found out Munn was pregnant, she assumed they would co-parent their son: “It wasn’t necessarily, ‘We’re going to be married and live together,’ or anything, it was, ‘I’m going to be involved in some way ‘” she said. Two months before Malcolm was born, the two decided to try raising him together.

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couple apparently he had a wedding in July and they welcomed their first daughterMéi June Mulaney, through a surrogate on September 14. Munn has opened up in several interviews this year about it private fight against breast cancerwhich started with a lifetime breast cancer risk score that came back high and escalated when an MRI revealed an early form of breast cancer that was confirmed by a biopsy.

Munn suffered a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy as a result.

Next up for Mulaney is a five-week run in the Broadway show “All In: Comedy About Love” in December, then a live Netflix show based on the six-night talk show he hosted this summer.Everyone is in LA“The career opportunity comes after two requests to host ‘The Daily Show’ and an offer to host next year’s Academy Awards, according to GQ.

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