Olivia Culpo: I’m Not 100 Percent ‘Healed’ From Past ‘Traumatic’ Experiences, Relationships

04.11.2022 - 00:31 / usmagazine.com

Putting in the work. Olivia Culpo said she’s still coping with some of the darker moments in her past, but she’s doing what she can to put it all behind her.

“I don’t know if you’re ever necessarily healed from traumatic past experiences,” the former Miss Universe, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, November 1, while promoting her new show, The Culpo Sisters. “Not to sound dramatic, but truly I think there are definitely still triggers that one might have if they’ve gone through something like that.”

The Rhode Island native will open up about some of her past relationships in her TLC series, which follows her and her sisters, Aurora Culpo and Sophia Culpo. “I was with somebody that did really horrible, horrible things,” Olivia said during a trailer released last month. “I was made to feel less than human in every sense of the word. I’ve never talked about it before.”

While it was difficult to relive these experiences for the cameras, the I Feel Pretty actress said she thinks talking about it “will help other people.” In the meantime, she’s doing “much better” than she was when she filmed the series.

“It just truly takes committing to self-work, and that can look like a lot of different things for a lot of different people,” she explained. “For me, I journal a lot — that really helped. And I think just working through trauma, which I know sounds so dramatic, but reading.”

Olivia singled out Marianne Williamson‘s A Return to Love as a favorite, noting that she and her sisters send it to each other whenever one of them is going through a breakup. “It’s a good one,” she added.

The new show isn’t all about the past, however, as it will also highlight Olivia’s relationship with Christian McCaffrey, whom she’s been dating