Cheryl Hines opens up about RFK Jr. offering fake split to protect her from political fallout over vaccine stance
The Emmy award winning actress shared details about her husband's ploy, which she claimed was his solution to shield her from political attacks over his unpopular opinions.
Cheryl Hines revealed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed a fake separation to help her fend off flak from her Hollywood friends over his stance on Covid and vaccines.
The admission comes just two months after she revealed he made a similar proposition after embarrassing reports emerged about his sexting fiasco with journalist Olivia Nuzzi.
Speaking to Dr. Phil McGraw, the 60-year-old Emmy award-winning actress shared details about her husband's ploy, which she claimed was his solution to shield her from political attacks over his controversial opinions.
'I didn't consider it,' she said.
Hines admitted 'things got really intense' during that period of her life, but that the backlash she faced from her peers and friends never once led her to consider his offer seriously.
'Bobby was speaking out about vaccine safety, and he wanted to see the studies for the Covid vaccine,' she said. 'He had feelings about it being mandatory, he had feelings about the shutdown, and they weren't always popular, especially in this town.
'The general feeling was he should not be talking about this, and you should tell him not to talk about this, and why are you with him?'
Hines noted that outside of Hollywood and the broader Los Angeles community, RFK Jr.'s arguments were resonating with voters, but that still didn't shield her from the backlash among A-listers and the elite.
Cheryl Hines has opened up about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposing they pretend to separate when she was copping flak from her Hollywood friends over his Covid and vaccine stance
The Emmy-award-winning actress, 60, previously revealed that Kennedy, 71, wanted to shield her from any fallout relating to their marriage while he was campaigning for the presidential race in 2024
'Suddenly people are asking me why I'm still married to him and some people were saying "I can't be around you because you're married to him,"' she revealed.
'That was hard at first and Bobby was seeing me go through that and he said maybe it would just be better if we just told people we weren't together.
'I said "I don't know if that is the solution." That was never the solution.'
Even though she never seriously considered his proposal, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star said she 'thought it was sweet.'