Secretary of Well being Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s actress spouse, Cheryl Hines, has defined why it was really easy to face by her man throughout his sexting scandal with then-New York Journal star author Olivia Nuzzi.
“I believe you all the time have to think about the supply, proper? In order that’s the place I begin,” Hines instructed “The Katie Miller Podcast” in a slicing putdown of Nuzzi, who misplaced her job and her fiance over the scandal.
“After which it ends with a dialog with Bobby,” she stated of her husband of 11 years, in response to a sneak peek of the chat obtained by the Politico Playbook.
The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress stated final yr’s scandal — which Nuzzi all the time admitted was digital, by no means bodily — was a part of the noise she anticipated as her husband ran for the White Home.
“Bobby had been working for president and it was a — an exhausting year-and-a-half of headlines and rumors and articles and chaos,” the actress recalled.
“And at the moment, I believed ‘OK, that is extra chaos and extra rumors.’ And, um, it was so much,” Hines stated.
She additionally questioned Nuzzi’s motives in dredging all of it up once more for a memoir anticipated by the tip of the yr.
“I don’t know this particular person. Don’t know their intentions,” Hines stated of the author, who’s now at Vainness Truthful.
“I might guess, however I received’t. However you may if you’d like.”
Earlier this week, an insider instructed the Submit that the rumored affair left Hines in “a state of shock and misery” — however that she “finally and emphatically believed, with out reservation, Bobby’s denial.”
Kennedy has additionally downplayed the connection, and stated by way of his spokesperson that he solely met Nuzzi as soon as for an interview at her request, which spawned a “hit piece” about him.
Hines, in the meantime, has been selling her personal memoir, “Unscripted,” which is out November 11.
