Cheryl Hines confronted about husband’s alleged online affair with journalist

Actress Cheryl Hines, spouse of Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., confronted her husband’s alleged “digital affair” with journalist Olivia Nuzzi in a podcast clip revealed Friday.

Hines, who starred in HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” appeared on the “Katie Miller Podcast” for an interview that can be revealed in full subsequent Tuesday. In a preview of the episode shared by the present, Miller requested Hines how she responds to “rumors or hypothesis about her marriage.”

“I feel you at all times have to think about the supply, proper? In order that’s the place I begin,” Hines says said Molenaar. “After which it ends with a dialog with Bobby.”

Journalist Olivia Nuzzi, now an editor at Vainness Truthful, comes out of the closet with a book detailing her alleged emotional and digital relationship with Kennedy. Nuzzi was on the middle of a media firestorm in September 2024 after claiming she had a web based romantic relationship with Kennedy whereas masking his presidential marketing campaign for New York journal. Nuzzi has insisted the connection was “private” however by no means bodily.

Cheryl Hines, spouse of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Well being and Human Providers, watches her husband testify on January 29, 2025 in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)

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Hines stated Friday that when Nuzzi’s allegations emerged, she interpreted them as “extra chaos and rumors” throughout her husband’s turbulent interval in politics. He dropped his impartial bid in August and endorsed eventual President Donald Trump.

“I do not know this individual,” Hines stated in response to the upcoming ebook.

‘I do not know their intentions. I may guess, however I will not. However you’ll be able to, if you’d like,” she informed Miller, laughing.

“There are lots of people on the lookout for affect,” Miller stated.

“Nicely, that is what I actually realized in the course of the marketing campaign,” Hines stated. “There are individuals who actually wish to be concerned within the dialog, and wish to be a part of it. And so they need… I am not simply speaking about this individual, I am speaking about lots of people. And so they spend a whole lot of time determining write one thing that is going to get folks’s consideration, and once they do this, they’re actually celebrating, you recognize? And whether or not it is true or not true, it does not matter if it will get folks’s consideration. It is a celebration, it is a success for them.”

Nuzzi left New York journal after the information broke and her engagement to Politico’s chief Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza was known as off.

Politico’s chief Washington correspondent and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi had been engaged earlier than the New York Journal star author’s alleged relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed. (Getty Photographs)

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Sources near Hines and Kennedy informed The New York Submit that information of the upcoming shock “blindsided” them.

“Bobby and Cheryl first went by marital hell final 12 months when the affair was first revealed. She even thought-about divorce for some time, however they’ve since reconciled and had been relieved that the scandal had seemingly blown over,” the insider informed the Submit.

“Cheryl finally and emphatically, with out reservation, believed Bobby’s denial” that he had an intimate relationship with Nuzzi, the Post reported.

Throughout an interview with Fox Information Digital this week, Hines revealed that the elevated public scrutiny throughout her husband’s marketing campaign solely made their marriage stronger.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his spouse, actress Cheryl Hines, wave to supporters throughout Kennedy’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign. (Scott Eisen/Getty Photographs)

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She stated Kennedy prompt they pretend a divorce in the course of the marketing campaign to take the stress off their marriage, which she rejected.

“It was a very candy concept, however yeah, I did not assume that was useful,” she informed Fox Information Digital. “What wanted to occur – and what did occur – is that we grew to become nearer. I understood the sentiment behind it, however that is why I discover the ebook so attention-grabbing: you end up in distinctive conditions that nobody else can think about.”

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Hines has made a number of media appearances this month to advertise her memoir “Unscripted.”

Nuzzi didn’t return Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

Stephanie Giang-Paunon and Joseph A. Wilson of Fox Information contributed to this report.