Munn appeared on Monday’s episode of Armchair Skilled with Dax Shepard, the place she revisited her battle with trichotillomania — a compulsive hair-pulling dysfunction. And in response to Munn, all of it traces again to at least one second throughout her short-lived romance with Star Trek star Chris Pine.

“There is a sensation. It is in all probability not even actual,” Munn shared on the podcast. “However I will really feel like, ‘Oh, this eyelash feels prefer it’s gonna come out,’ though it is not. After which once you pull it, there is a fast second of ache. After which there is a satisfaction… after which fast remorse.”

Outlined by the Mayo Clinic as a psychological well being dysfunction involving “repeated, irresistible urges to tug out hair out of your scalp, eyebrows or different areas of your physique.”

Trichotillomania confirmed up in Munn’s life within the type of eyelash pulling. The actress, who first went public together with her prognosis again in 2012, says the conduct began greater than ten years in the past, across the time she was relationship Pine.

“So there was a paparazzi shot of he and I, and it was the primary time I used to be within the tabloids,” she recalled of that point throughout her romance with Pine, which ran from late 2009 into early 2010.

The photographs confirmed Munn leaving Pine’s home in a unusual classic blue promenade costume, one she stated borrowed straight from The Every day Present‘s wardrobe division.

“I requested for the ugliest costume they’d,” Munn joked. “They discovered this blue previous promenade costume with huge pom-poms on the facet. I believed, ‘Let’s examine if I could make it onto the worst best-dressed listing.’ After which I did! I could not imagine it labored.”

Although she’s capable of snicker concerning the outfit now, the backlash on the time left a long-lasting mark.

“I learn the feedback. And so they had been like, ‘I feel she set this up. Who’s carrying a clutch in the course of the day?’” Munn shared. “That started my trichotillomania.”

Whereas Munn did not get into element about how she’s presently managing the dysfunction, she did share that there is not any dangerous blood between her and Pine. In reality, they lately ran into one another on the SNL fiftieth anniversary celebration.

“He’s wonderful,” she stated. “We had been within the airport lounge collectively afterward, and it was so nice to catch up. He is simply one of the best.”

Munn has since shifted her focus to motherhood, elevating two kids with comic husband John Mulaney: 3-year-old son Malcolm and 9-month-old daughter Méi, and balancing her profession. As for Pine, the longtime Hollywood heartthrob was final linked to actress Annabelle Wallis earlier than their reported break up in 2022, however his present relationship standing is unknown.