Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Nate Parker | Celebrity | January 18, 2024
The Hollywood Reporter’s latest cover story is on Cheryl Hines, star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and wife of conspiracy theorist and spoiler presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. It’s a standard celebrity interview apart from her husband’s political aspirations looming over her life; her close friendship with Larry David, who brought her to the 2004 event where she met Kennedy; the difficulties of a blended family when half your husband’s relations have denounced his campaign; and future Hollywood roles when you might become the First Lady.
Unfortunately, Hines comes across as equal parts buying into her husband’s nonsense — she tells reporter Seth Abramovitch, “So, yeah. I guess maybe I have changed. Maybe I am like, ‘OK, what’s the rest of the story? What’s the whole story?’” — and disassociated from the political reality that her spouse’s presidential campaign’s biggest impact is amplification of the kind of conspiracy theory that sprouted up in the wake of his uncle’s and father’s assassinations. Her only public rebuke for his many verbal gaffes was when he favorably compared the Nazi’s level of state surveillance to Covid-19 restrictions. Apart from that, it’s strictly a hands-off policy.
There’s a cycle to news. Things spike, they talk about it for one or two days, then they move on. And so I’ve learned to stay out of it because my words live on. And because Bobby’s my husband. And I would never want to hurt Bobby. I love him.
I have a strict “not my marriage, not my problem” approach to celebrity relationships. I don’t get invested. And there are definitely times to stay out of your spouse’s hobbies, whether that’s buying another Stanley cup or creating another Baldur’s Gate 3 campaign even though you’re a month behind on Reacher. But when your husband’s ramblings about fluoride in the groundwater and mRNA in vaccines make national news, it’s time to set some ground rules about not appearing like a crackpot in public. Disagreements about vaccine safety or whether mushrooms belong on pizza are on entirely different levels.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
