Cheryl Hines has responded to the sexting incident between her husband RFK Jr. and journalist Olivia Nuzzi. The 60-year-old Curb Your Enthusiasm actress lastly addressed the scandal in a not-yet-released episode of The Katie Killer Podcast, per Politico, and the way it impacted her relationship with the Well being and Human Companies Secretary on the time. This comes amid the upcoming memoir “American Canto” written by Nuzzi that reportedly discloses racy texts between the pair.
Hines says Nuzzi introduced “extra chaos and extra rumors”
Nuzzi shared in September 2024 with The New York Occasions that the communication between and RFK Jr. had “turned private” earlier that yr whereas she was a political author masking his presidential marketing campaign for New York Journal. The journalist was instantly positioned on go away because the scandal got here to gentle and solely just lately got here again to the general public as a author for Self-importance Truthful and because the writer for her upcoming e book.
On the podcast, Hines describes the time frame that the scandal occurred as hectic. “Bobby had been operating for president and it was an exhausting year-and-a-half of headlines and rumor and articles and chaos,” she explains. So when she realized concerning the texting scandal, she thought on the time, “Okay, that is extra chaos and extra rumors.”
The actress then questions how the scandal began and what Nuzzi’s “intentions” are. “I believe you all the time have to contemplate the supply, proper? In order that’s the place I begin,” she mentioned. “After which it ends with a dialog with Bobby.”
“I don’t know this particular person, don’t know their intentions. I may guess, however I gained’t. However you may if you’d like.”
Hines and RFK Jr. had remained comparatively quiet concerning the scandal, refusing to touch upon the topic in an August interview with The Wall Avenue Journal.
Earlier in October, the actress defended her husband’s credentials in a heated interview on The View.