Actress Cheryl Hines<\/strong> opened up about the \u201crift\u201d in husband Robert J. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong>\u2019s political family.<\/p>\n \u201cI always thought the Kennedy family, one of their virtues was that family came first, and I admired that,\u201d Hines, 60, said during an interview with CBS Mornings<\/em><\/a>\u2018 Natalie Morales<\/strong> on Tuesday, October 7.<\/p>\n \u201cSo when some of his family decided to \u2014 there\u2019s no other way to say it \u2014 attack him publicly, it was disappointing,\u201d she said of the drama surrounding husband RFK Jr.\u2019s appointment to President<\/strong> Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s cabinet.<\/p>\n While the Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/em> star didn\u2019t name names, the Health and Human Services Secretary\u2019s first cousin Caroline Kennedy<\/strong> and her son, Jack Schlossberg<\/strong>, along with various other relatives, have voiced their negative opinions about his appointment and views.<\/p>\n \u201cBobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment\u2026 We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country,\u201d several of RFK Jr\u2019s siblings\u2014 including Kerry Kennedy<\/strong>, Rory Kennedy<\/strong>, Joseph P. Kennedy II<\/strong> and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend <\/strong>\u2014 said in a 2023 letter posted on social media.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was hard. I found it to be hard,\u201d Hines told Morales of the family\u2019s \u201crift.\u201d<\/p>\n Schlossberg, 32, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy<\/strong>, has a different view on the family drama.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no \u2018family\u2019 \u2014 it\u2019s not The Godfather<\/em>,\u201d he told New York Magazine<\/em><\/a> in August. \u201cWe don\u2019t all meet every year and have a discussion about what to do. It\u2019s just a bunch of individual people.\u201d<\/p>\n His mother, 67, however, did not mince words when she explained the dynamic.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI 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,\u201d Caroline said at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia, days after the 2024 election, per NBC News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA Actress Cheryl Hines opened up about the \u201crift\u201d in husband Robert J. 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