Olivia Wilde raises fan fears as she shows off shockingly thin frame after THAT 'Gollum' drama

Olivia Wilde left fans aghast when she surfaced Wednesday in a dress that plunged at the sides to emphasize her astonishingly thin frame.

In April, shocked observers had compared her to the emaciated creature Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, thanks to her viral red carpet video interview with SF Gate.

'It was a terrible image,' the Don't Worry Darling filmmaker said when the subject was brought to her by The Cut. 'I did look like Gollum.' 

She has now sent her admirers into a spiral of worry at a screening of her latest directorial effort The Invite, held at the Picturehouse Central in London.

While there, she gave an interview that had fans leaping into the comments to share their fears after the footage was posted by The Sunday Times Style.

'I really like Olivia and for that reason I’m concerned by her appearance here,' wrote one viewer, theorizing that the 42-year-old 'doesn’t look healthy.'

The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Wilde for comment. 

'Oh... she doesn't look healthy. I hope she's OK,' wrote a fan as another speculated: 'i don’t think she eats dinner (or lunch or breakfast or snacks).'

'Please. Please. Someone help Olivia. She has body dysmorphia,' another Instagram commenter conjectured. 'She isn’t well and can’t help herself. Will someone who cares about her get to into therapy?'

Among the horrified reactions were: 'Omg…scary,' 'Dude quit the Ozempic,' 'You look like a skeleton,' 'Dear GOD,' and: 'Ugh,why? From HOT TO NOT!!!!!'

Wilde previously brushed off this April's 'Gollum' uproar, chatting gamely about the subject with Alex Cooper last month on Call Her Daddy.

'I'm so happy you're bringing this up,' said Wilde, roaring with laughter when the topic first arose. 'I was looking like an actual dead body!'

Joking that she resembled 'a dead sarcophagus man' from the TV show Tales from the Crypt, she recalled: 'It was absolutely insane! I saw the picture and I was like: "Oh, that won't go very far," and then suddenly it went f***ing everywhere.'

Wilde continued: 'We all have bad photos taken but then imagine it being on one hundred million phones. And that's not how I actually look!'

She explained that 'this is the thing about having really good friends. They are the ones that laugh the hardest. Any joke that has been made about me - my friends have made it first and been funnier about it. We had to laugh!'

When she first went viral in April over the red carpet appearance, even her younger brother Charlie Cockburn compared her to Gollum.

Wilde posted an Instagram video captioned: 'Leave it to your little brother to give you the maximum amount of s***,' in which Charlie could be heard laughing in the background as she reassured him she was 'not dead.'

She is currently in the midst of the publicity rounds for The Invite, which she co-wrote with Rashida Jones as well as Will McCormack, the co-writer and co-director of the Oscar-winning short film If Anything Happens I Love You.

Adapted from a 2020 Spanish movie called The People Upstairs, The Invite stars Wilde alongside Penelope Cruz, Seth Rogen and Edward Norton. 

Wilde and Rogen play a couple with a floundering marriage who - to add insult to injury - are subjected to the regular sound of sex noises from the couple who live above them, played by Cruz and Norton.

During a recent interview in support of the film, Wilde frankly discussed the way her insecurities about her appearance had shaped her public image.

She pulled the curtain back on her decision to pose for the cover of Maxim when the men's magazine put her on the top of its Hot 100 List in 2009.

'I remember my publicist called me and said: "You're number one. Do you want to accept it?"' she recalled during her Call Her Daddy appearance.

'And I remember being like, I understand this is the most f***ed up thing in the world, but the part of me that felt like the girl who didn't fit in from high school, the girl who never felt like I fit those standards, who felt awkward and wrong in every way, I know that part of me was like: "Really? You want me? I fit it now?"'

Although she was uncomfortable with the idea that her cachet in the industry was 'entirely dependent on our fickle, subjective definition of beauty,' she acknowledged that her sex symbol status gave a boost to her acting career.

'I got roles upon roles from that. It led to casting,' she said. 'You have to take responsibility for your participation in that self-objectification.'

Wilde also observed that receiving the imprimatur of being 'pretty' came with its own added pressures of having to 'maintain' the image over time.

'And then, inevitably, anytime someone uses a superlative to describe you like: "You're the hottest," there's gonna be a whole bunch of people who are like: "I don't think so. I think you're the ugliest,"' she said.

'And then that's the thing that the inner part of you actually is gonna agree with, because you're gonna be like: "See? I'm not the prettiest. I'm the ugliest and I knew it and they see it and now I have to run from that."'