As a new father of two children, John Mulaney dedicated stay sober with the help of his wife, Olivia Munn.

Inside GQ’s Men of the Year cover story Featuring the 42-year-old comedian posted online on Tuesday, Mulaney and Munn shared some details about their family of four and what it took to get to a place where Mulaney said he was “having the time of his life.”

Although Mulaney star-studded intervention including Fred Armisen, Nick Kroll, Natasha Lyonne And Seth Meyers Munn became folklore in a GQ piece in which she described her role in Mulaney’s sobriety journey.

Munn told GQ that she staged an intervention for Mulaney, who was six months pregnant with his son. Malcolm Hipp Mulaneyalmost 3 years old. Together, the couple decided to take random drug tests, a practice that still continues, which boosted Mulaney’s confidence.

“It’s like a relief,” Mulaney said. “I love that it’s not even a question in his or anyone else’s mind. It’s about peeing in that cup, it’s like I’m walking this walk. It gives me confidence.”

Mulaney was in rehab From December 2020 to February 2021, thanks in part to his friends’ intervention with his addiction to cocaine, Adderall, Xanax, Klonopin, and Percocet. Next month will mark four years of sobriety for the Emmy winner”Baby J“He and the comedian were asked to be part of various interventions for other people,” he told GQ.

“It was like watching a man in a tsunami,” Munn said of his partner’s recovery from addiction. “I was watching someone who had just sobered up on the edge of a cliff, and I didn’t know him well enough to help him.”

“In my head I’m thinking, I don’t really know what happened to this guy. It’s a pretty shaky feeling,” he says. “But then I’d see him at the Troubadour and I’d be like, ‘Man, he’s on fire. He’s just phenomenal.’ “

Expecting a baby boy was a bright spot for Mulaney at the time, Munn said: “It was the one thing that made him look light and happy. I remember him being really excited to tell his family.”

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Years after first meeting at Meyers’ wedding in 2013, Munn and Mulaney reconnected in 2021 while Mulaney was searching for leads on finding a place to live in New York after leaving rehab.

“This wasn’t anything close to a ‘date,'” Munn told GQ. “I barely knew him.”

When they learned Munn was pregnant, she assumed they would co-parent their son: “It wasn’t necessarily, ‘We’re going to get married and move in together’ or anything like that, but it was, ‘I’m going to be involved in some way,'” she said. Two months before Malcolm was born First, the two of them decided to raise him together.

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Couple It is said that he had a wedding in July and They welcomed their first daughterMéi June Mulaney, via a surrogate, on September 14. Munn has opened up about himself in several interviews this year. special breast cancer fightStarting with a lifetime breast cancer risk score, it returned a high percentage and was further increased when an early form of breast cancer was revealed on MRI and confirmed by biopsy.

Munn underwent surgery double mastectomy and a hysterectomy in conclusion.

Next up for Mulaney is a five-week run on the Broadway show “All In: Comedy About Love” in December, followed by a live Netflix show based on the six-night talk show he hosted this summer.Everybody’s in Los Angeles” The career opportunity came 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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