{"id":309248,"date":"2025-11-27T01:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309248\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:24:10","slug":"dax-shepard-says-kids-were-mad-at-kristen-bell-for-movie-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309248\/","title":{"rendered":"Dax Shepard Says Kids Were ‘Mad’ at Kristen Bell for Movie Split"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dax Shepard<\/a> and Kristen Bell<\/a>\u2019s love story could easily be mistaken for a Hollywood fairytale \u2014 but their daughters aren\u2019t fans of every aspect of their journey.<\/p>\n

Shepard, 50, and Bell, 45, revealed that their daughters, Lincoln, 12, and Delta, 10<\/a>, had thoughts about their relationship after watching 2012\u2019s Hit and Run, now streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur kids rarely show interest in us. But they did want to see this movie we made, because we\u2019re very much in love,\u201d Shepard recalled during a joint appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> on Tuesday, November 25. \u201cWe\u2019re childless and we had nothing to do but love each other<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shepard revealed that their girls \u201cloved it\u201d because they liked seeing their parents \u201cin love and kinda young.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDax Shepard will never speak negatively about his marriage to Kristen Bell, even if they split at some point in the future. Shepard, 50, made the declaration during a conversation with Alicia Silverstone about her 20-year marriage to her ex-husband, Chris Jarecki, on the Monday, September 8, episode of Shepard\u2019s \u201cArmchair Expert\u201d podcast. \u201cI say [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

Bell noted there was one portion of the film \u2014 which Shepard wrote about their love story<\/a> \u2014 that didn\u2019t sit well with their kids: The breakup.<\/p>\n

\u201cDax kinda wrote it about our love story. Different details. But tells the story about how we started trusting each other,\u201d Bell told host Jimmy Kimmel, confirming their kids \u201cdid not like the break up\u201d scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were very upset,\u201d Shepard added. \u201cAnd what made me happy is they were mad at mom, not me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Parenthood alum<\/a> joked, \u201cThey thought mom was a bitch. They thought dad was a good boy with a bad past and she should be able to overlook that and I agree.\u201d (Shepard has been open about his struggles with sobriety, revealing in 2020 he had fallen off the wagon.)<\/p>\n

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\n Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell in \u2018Hit and Run.\u2019 Open Road Films\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

Shepard and Bell began dating in 2007, but after three months they split after admitting to wanting different things.<\/p>\n

\u201cI already knew that I was in love with him and he was hesitant because he knew he was still dating other people,\u201d Bell recalled to PopSugar<\/a> in August 2017 of their brief separation. \u201cHe sat me down and said, \u2018I can\u2019t have this right now. I think you\u2019re wonderful, but I am still dating other people.\u2019 And then I, like, liquefied and fell to the ground, but I felt incredibly respected that he had the balls to tell me we weren\u2019t in the same place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shepard quickly realized he\u2019d made a mistake and called Bell four days later to fix it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe called me and he was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know what I was thinking. I was dating someone else but they\u2019re just not as interesting as you, and I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing,\u2019 and he came back,\u201d Bell remembered. \u201cBut I still always remind him of when he broke up with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bell and Shepard rekindled their romance in 2007 and got married in 2013. They welcomed their first daughter, Lincoln, in March 2013, followed by daughter Delta in December 2014.<\/p>\n

Throughout their marriage, Bell and Shepard have been honest<\/a> with each other and their children, including the realities of Shepard\u2019s sobriety struggles.<\/p>\n

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\n Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell in \u2018Hit and Run.\u2019 Jeffrey Reed\/\u00a9Open Road Films\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

In September 2020, Shepard shared that after 16-years of being sober he relapsed and was taking Vicodin<\/a>. He pointed to a recent motorcycle accident as the catalyst for the relapse, but vowed at the time that he was back on track and seven days clean.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is actually doing really great,\u201d Bell shared on an October 2020 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/a>, confirming she had her husband\u2019s back. \u201cI mean, look, everybody is up against their own demons \u2014 sometimes it\u2019s anxiety and depression, sometimes it\u2019s substance abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Frozen star explained, \u201cThe thing I love most about Dax is that he was able to tell me and tell us and say, \u2018We need a different plan.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Bell said, \u201cLike, we have a plan. If he has to take medication for any reason, I have to administer it. But he was like, \u2018So, we need a stronger plan. I was faltering, and I have to do some sort of emotional work to figure out why I wanted to use again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bell noted that Shepard\u2019s love for her and their daughters played into his decision to speak out and refocus on his health journey so publicly.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was like, \u2018I don\u2019t want to risk this family, and I did, so let\u2019s put new things in place to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again,\u2019\u201d she recalled. \u201cWe\u2019re going back to therapy. \u2026 And I will continue to stand by him because he\u2019s very, very worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline<\/a> at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell\u2019s love story could easily be mistaken for a Hollywood fairytale \u2014 but their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,362,5371,75,5377,39423,138202,337],"class_list":["post-309248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-dads","tag-entertainment","tag-kids","tag-love-lives","tag-moms","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}