Olivia Wilde has opened up about being bullied over her original surname.
The Booksmart director grew up being teased over her Scottish last name, ******* burn, but explained in a new interview that the taunts had helped her develop a sense of humour.
Olivia, who adopted "Wilde" as a stage name when she entered the entertainment industry, told Dax Shepard, host of the Armchair Expert podcast, exactly how to ******* ounce her real name.
"I'll tell you something - and there's no way you would know this - it's ******* ounced 'Coburn,'" the actress and filmmaker explained. "Which I want you to imagine being a kid, when you're... Because it's spelled 'Cockburn!'"
After explaining her family name's Scottish origins, Olivia, 42, added she had chosen "Wilde" in tribute to the Irish playwright, novelist and poet, Oscar Wilde.
But, she joked, having a name that invited teasing was "character building", and compared her experience to the classic country song, A Boy Named Sue, in which a young man whose struggle with his unusual name left him with a sharp wit.

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