Actress Cheryl Hines opened up about the “rift” in husband Robert J. Kennedy Jr.’s political family.
“I always thought the Kennedy family, one of their virtues was that family came first, and I admired that,” Hines, 60, said during an interview with CBS Mornings‘ Natalie Morales on Tuesday, October 7.
“So when some of his family decided to — there’s no other way to say it — attack him publicly, it was disappointing,” she said of the drama surrounding husband RFK Jr.’s appointment to President Donald Trump’s cabinet.
While the Curb Your Enthusiasm star didn’t name names, the Health and Human Services Secretary’s first cousin Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, along with various other relatives, have voiced their negative opinions about his appointment and views.
“Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment… We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country,” several of RFK Jr’s siblings— including Kerry Kennedy, Rory Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend — said in a 2023 letter posted on social media.
“It was hard. I found it to be hard,” Hines told Morales of the family’s “rift.”
Schlossberg, 32, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, has a different view on the family drama.
“There is no ‘family’ — it’s not The Godfather,” he told New York Magazine in August. “We don’t all meet every year and have a discussion about what to do. It’s just a bunch of individual people.”
His mother, 67, however, did not mince words when she explained the dynamic.
“I would say that our family is united in terms of our support for the public health sector and infrastructure and has greatest admiration for the medical profession in our country, and Bobby Kennedy has got a different set of views,” Caroline said at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia, days after the 2024 election, per NBC News.
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