American actress Olivia Wild and boyfriend Jason Sudeikis had to be rescued by fishermen after finding themselves stranded at sea while on a recent trip to the island, THE STAR has learnt.

The Tron: Legacy star made the revelation on Monday during an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.

According to Starpulse.com Wild confirmed her romance with the Horrible Bosses funny man and said it was her first vacation to Jamaica during the interview.

She explained, "We fancy ourselves athletic people, tough people, so... we thought we won't just sit on the beach all the time, we'll go kayaking... We were warned against going out (to sea), it was a choppy, windy, stormy day, but I thought we could do it anyway... We get to the middle (of the bay), disaster strikes, it's too windy, the waves are too big and it's mayhem."

She continued, "I was really pushing through and it got a little too treacherous and I turned around and Jason was gone... He resurfaced and we were rescued by a team of fishermen. They had been watching us with binoculars. I'm sure they were taking bets on who would go down first... We were both dragged out of our kayaks into the fishing boat."

THE STAR understands that the nightmare didn't end there for the couple as the actress was also stung by a swarm of jellyfish.