Cheryl Hines might have been all smiles and expressions of MAGA solidarity as she watched her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. be part of Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace final month for his swearing-in as the brand new secretary of Well being and Human Providers.
However the Hollywood celeb has reportedly been coping with the concern that her notoriously womanizing husband, a scion of the Kennedy household, will succumb to his self-proclaimed “lust demons,” if he’s allowed to stay on his personal, even part-time, in Washington D.C., in response to an RFK Jr. biographer.
Writing within the Every day Mail, writer Jerry Oppenheimer stated Hines has given Kennedy an ultimatum, telling him that she would solely keep married to him if he relocated her to Washington as properly. “Well-connected sources” have instructed the Every day Mail that the 59-year-old “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star is “absolutely still recovering from the emotional shock and pain” she suffered in September when Kennedy, 71, grew to become embroiled in a weird dishonest scandal involving a feminine political journalist half his age.
Kennedy’s reported sexting affair with Olivia Nuzzi “blindsided” Hines and ignited hypothesis that she would divorce her husband of 10 years, Oppenheimer earlier reported. Whereas Hines and Kennedy seemingly made up as he started campaigning for Trump to win the Nov. 5 election, she nonetheless doesn’t belief her husband.
“Cheryl doesn’t feel Bobby can be trusted one iota living on his own, in D.C., even part-time, with so many attractive women and Kennedy groupies around, as he gets settled in his powerful new position,” an insider stated, in response to Oppenheimer. “So she’s given him a strict ultimatum: move me or else.”
Hines has not commented on the report. Based on Oppenheimer, she regards it as “a great sacrifice” to surrender her glamorous Hollywood way of life and to maneuver to Washington to grow to be “a political wife.” Hines additionally reportedly thinks Washington is “stodgy,” and she or he has “absolutely no love for MAGA or the Trump circle that Bobby’s now a part of,” the insider additionally stated.
As if to sign Hines’ distaste for Trump world, Oppenheimer’s report made be aware of the truth that she didn’t be part of her husband at Trump’s State of the Union deal with to Congress Tuesday night time. However Hines’ reported discomfort with the president’s MAGA ideology might shock lots of people, on condition that she appeared to shed her persona as a sensibly-minded Hollywood liberal to indulge in her proximity to energy as soon as Trump was re-elected to the White Home.
Hines willingly performed the position of “MAGA wife,” as she joined her husband for a victory social gathering at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort after the election. She additionally radiated happiness whereas attending Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration and associated festivities, together with the MAHA (Make America Wholesome Once more) Ball. She and Kennedy’s socialite daughter, Kick Kennedy, regarded excited to be at one of many greatest D.C. events of the 12 months.
However apparently it’s a “sacrifice” for Hines to depart her $6 million property within the unique Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles and stay in Washington, D.C., even when her dwelling may very well be an enthralling townhouse in “trendy” Georgetown, in response to Oppenheimer. Hines nonetheless would make the transfer as a way to “keep a close watch on Bobby,” the insider stated.
In recent times, Kennedy has grow to be a controversial nationwide determine due to his lengthy historical past of trafficking in “innumerable unproven and dangerous conspiracy theories” about vaccines, AIDS, COVID-19 and different well being points, because the Atlantic stated. He’s additionally grew to become the butt of late-night jokes after claiming {that a} worm ate a part of his mind and bizarrely boasting about dumping a lifeless bear cub in Central Park.
After which there was his status as a serial adulterer throughout his first two marriages to Emily Black and Mary Richardson. Kennedy’s personal “sex diary,” printed by the New York Put up in 2013, revealed that he repeatedly cheated on Richardson, who was reportedly distraught over his serial philandering and their impending divorce earlier than she died by suicide in 2013. Within the red-bound journal present in her dwelling, Kennedy wrote about struggling along with his greatest defect — “my lust demons” — as he additionally detailed his sexual encounters with not less than 16 girls, in response to the New York Put up.
Kennedy additionally was accused of sexually assaulting his kids’s babysitter in 1998, as Vainness Honest reported. The alleged assault got here up in his contentious affirmation listening to to grow to be the top of Well being and Human Providers. Kennedy denied the allegation and claimed it had been “debunked.”
Hines was properly conscious of Kennedy’s “long history of womanizing” when she met Kennedy, and she or he truly started seeing him when he was nonetheless married to Richardson, Oppenheimer reported. However Hines was nonetheless “blindsided” when her husband’s alleged year-long sexting affair with Nuzzi grew to become the speak of Washington, D.C., in late September and early October.
Lurid experiences concerning the scandal included claims that Kennedy vowed to “impregnate” the journalist after assembly her when she interviewed him for a New York journal story. Because the Nuzzi scandal broke, Mediaite additionally reported that three extra girls, who have been affiliated with Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group, claimed that they, too, had affairs with the previous environmental lawyer over the previous 12 months.
In early October, Oppenheimer was reporting for the Every day Mail that Hines had reached the bounds of her marriage to the “egomaniacal” and politically polarizing Kennedy and was contemplating a divorce. Regardless that Hines was conscious of her husband’s “checkered” sexual historical past, she firmly believed that he “finally had his sex demons under control” along with his political aspiration and as he reached his seventh decade, a good friend instructed Oppenheimer.
However in mid-October, Hines publicly rejected the divorce rumors at a Hollywood occasion. Talking to reporters on the fiftieth anniversary social gathering for the Groundlings comedy theater troupe, she stated she was “feeling good” and counting on her love “connection” with Kennedy to assist them climate the assorted controversies round them. On the time, Hines additionally was coping with the backlash over Kennedy’s resolution to droop his personal presidential candidacy and endorse Trump.
“There’s, like, a connection that you look at your husband or your partner and all the crazy going on around you, or you look and you check in and it’s like, ‘OK. It’s going to be OK,’” Hines instructed a reporter for Us Weekly, who famous that she additionally was carrying her marriage ceremony ring.
However as Oppenheimer is reporting this week, Hines could also be anxious that issues gained’t be “OK” if her husband is left on his personal in Washington, D.C., A longtime good friend of Kennedy’s beforehand instructed the writer that “any woman who gets involved with Bobby does so with eyes wide open, or their brains lopped off.”
“Any woman who thinks they’re going to change Bobby is misguided and purposefully ignorant,” the good friend stated. “Women have to understand what they’re getting into when they’re with him.”
