Owen Wilson may be paying a pretty penny to financially support the daughter he’s never met, but he’s going through great lengths to make sure he’ll never be in the kid’s life — or her mother’s!
According to RadarOnline, the Wedding Crashers star is shelling out a HUGE monthly payment to former on-again-off-again girlfriend Varunie Vongsvirates, who filed a paternity petition in May 2018, five months before baby Lyla Aranya Wilson was born.
After a DNA test Wilson insisted upon revealed he IS Lyla’s father, the pair’s lawyers agreed to a $25,000 monthly payment, in addition to a one-off payment of $70,000 to cover a night nurse, labor coach, and Varunie’s legal fees. On top of that, Wilson agreed to add his daughter to his Screen Actors Guild medical insurance.
That’s $300K a year! Yowza!
But he’s drawing the line there, apparently, as the outlet reports the actor went so far as to change his phone number after learning about Varunie’s pregnancy!
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An insider told Radar the 50-year-old hasn’t spoken to his baby momma since she told him about the bun in her oven, claiming:
“When Varunie told Owen she was pregnant, he was not happy about it, and that was the last time they ever spoke… He changed his phone number. He’s never met his daughter and then he gave no heads up that he was changing his number.”
As we reported, the Oscar nominee has been getting dragged for refusing to meet his third child — an odd decision, seeing as Wilson regularly sees his other two children: 7-year-old Ford, whom he had with ex Jade Duell, and 4-year-old Finn with trainer Caroline Lindqvist.
Before giving birth, Varunie was expecting the star to be a “great dad” to Lyla as well. She said at the time:
“He will be a great dad, because he’s an incredible dad with his other two children.”
Obviously, that didn’t pan out.
The source went on to say that Varunie dropped everything to become a full-time, single mom (which is a lifestyle she can now afford, thankfully!), adding:
“Varunie’s mother passed away when she was still kind of young and impressionable. She knows what it’s like to grow up with one parent. She doesn’t want that to happen to her daughter… She just wants her daughter to have a normal life. It didn’t work out between the two of them — that happens — but to abandon his child is rude and wrong.”
We wonder if that’s why he agreed to such high child support payments?
What do U think, Perezcious readers? Does Owen feel guilty for cutting his kid out of his life? Why is he treating this child differently than his other two? Share your thoughts (below)!
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