Cheryl Hines is opening up about her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm actress spoke out in a new story for THR about her relationship with the presidential hopeful, including his controversial takes on subjects like the COVID-19 vaccine, which he wrongly described as “the deadliest vaccine ever made.”
He also wrote the 2021 book The Real Anthony Fauci.
“It was very stressful for many reasons,” she reflected on the height of the pandemic and vaccine policies.
“People were in one camp or the other, and that’s who they surrounded themselves with. And both sides were angry at the other side for not thinking the way they thought.”
“What side was Larry [David] on?” the reporter asked of her Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star.
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“I don’t want to speak for Larry, but I’ll make a generalization about this town,” she said. “I think a lot of people in this town were very passionate about getting a vaccine and about other people getting vaccinated.”
Regarding her own COVID-19 vaccination status, she says, “I did what I needed to do to work. If I wasn’t working, would things be different? Maybe. I’m not the kind of person that gets the flu shot.” Her husband, “it’s safe to say, is not” vaccinated, she went on to say.
In December 2021, after an invitation to her Christmas party leaked to the press, she said: “It had been a year of hot tempers. I really wanted to have a party where people could come if they wanted to. I put on the invitation that you can be vaccinated. The part the press did not report is you could also attend if you tested negative for COVID. But whoever leaked this — and I feel like I have an idea who it was — didn’t leak that part. They just said that I insisted on everyone being vaccinated, which is ridiculous. I would never do that.”
The backlash from pro-vaxxers called her a hypocrite for standing by her husband, while anti-vaxxers bashed her for not supporting the movement he championed.
Cheryl said the controversy showed her “a side of some of my friends that surprised me. It brought out a dark side with some people. So some acquaintances sort of drifted. But my inner circle is still the same.”
Suzanne Todd, a movie producer who befriended her at a charity poker tournament 17 years ago, reflected: “I never really observed anyone in our small circle of close friends treating her differently, but this is Hollywood. Nobody needs a reason to behave badly toward other people.”
Larry David previously told The New York Times of Robert‘s presidential run: “I love and support [Bobby], but I’m not ‘supporting’ him.”
