Tig Notaro Has 'Stepped Away' from Her Friendship with Cheryl Hines

Cheryl Hines has taken a beating from the press and social media over the last year for sticking by the side of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., through a virtual affair with a much younger journalist, Olivia Nuzzi, and through his decision to the lifelong Democrat to end his Presidential campaign and throw his full support behind the President. He has since been appointed the Secretary of Health and Human Services and is overhauling the nation’s healthcare system despite a complete lack of qualifications for the job. She’s standing by RFK, Jr., and even defending his positions, despite policy disagreements she once felt comfortable sharing, even as her husband was running for President.

She took heat for that earlier this week on The View. She’s also apparently lost a close friend over it.

That friend is Tig Notaro, who Notaro described on the Breaking Bread With Tom Papa podcast as “one of her favorite friends with be ridiculous with.” The two even once hosted a true-crime podcast together, Tig & Cheryl: True Story, and Notaro said that the two made each other “laugh so hard.”

Not so much anymore, Notaro added. And that’s why she decided to end their podcast together.

“But Cheryl’s married to Bobby Kennedy Jr. When he was announcing his run, I just felt like I needed to step away, because there are beliefs that were like a gnat on the arm years ago that were getting further into the spotlight.”

Though Notaro’s friendship with Hines predated her marriage to Kennedy, Jr., she couldn’t find a way around his beliefs and maintain that friendship.

“He was in environmental law. And, again, other beliefs he had were like a gnat on my arm. But then it started to grow, and Cheryl wanted me to hear Bobby out. They had these good ideas, and I was like, ‘I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.’ I just didn’t trust it. And then he endorsed Trump, and then it just got hard.”

Naturally.

“When somebody is like, ‘Oh we don’t agree on everything’ within a marriage, that is so vague,” Notaro added, saying that she and her wife don’t agree on what temperature the thermostat should be at. But this is different. “I think where it has led is … It’s not my world. It’s a hard pass … You’re okaying a particular ride for this country to go on that’s um … “

via EW