{"id":2361702,"date":"2026-04-07T00:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2361702"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:32:28","slug":"dax-shepard-weighs-in-on-wife-kristen-bells-controversial-anniversary-post-and-had-no-clue-about-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dax-shepard-weighs-in-on-wife-kristen-bells-controversial-anniversary-post-and-had-no-clue-about-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Dax Shepard weighs in on wife Kristen Bell\u2019s controversial anniversary post and had ‘no clue’ about backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dax Shepard has broken his silence surrounding wife Kristen Bell\u2019s controversial anniversary post, six months after she faced an intense backlash for the eyebrow raising comments. <\/strong><\/p>\n

On the Monday, April 6 episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard<\/a>, the actor, 51, sat down with guest Nikki Glaser and opened up about the post, which featured a quote that Dax had once infamously told his wife. <\/a><\/p>\n

The conversation first kicked off when Glaser, one of the hosts of this year\u2019s Golden Globes<\/a> ceremony, had wanted to crack a joke about the post at this year\u2019s awards, but decided not to because it was \u2018old news by then,\u2019 and she didn\u2019t \u2018want to make his life harder.\u2019<\/p>\n

Curious about the unaired joke, Shepard then asked to hear it. <\/p>\n

\u201cDie My Love. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Sorry, Baby. These are not just captions to Dax Shepard’s Instagram post for Mother’s Day, or for Christmas, or captions for his anniversary post. These are movies nominated tonight,\u201d Glaser replied as Shepard laughed.<\/p>\n

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Dax Shepard has finally weighed in on the backlash faced by his wife’s anniversary post (The Armchair Expert \/ YouTube)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The unaired joke was a reference to Shepard\u2019s wife Kristen Bell<\/a>\u2019s Instagram anniversary post from October 2025, when she shared a photo of the pair hugging to mark the milestone occasion alongside the caption: \u201cHappy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who, after and episode of Dateline, once said to me: \u2018I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I\u2019m heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would,\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The post divided audiences with some sharing the couple\u2019s dark sense of humour, such as comedian Howie Mandel<\/a> who joked: \u201cHe should write for Hallmark.\u201d <\/p>\n

Meanwhile the official account for Dateline even joined in, writing, \u201cScreenshotted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet not everyone was so keen to take such a lighthearted view of such a serious topic, with several critics slamming the couple for being so cavalier about domestic violence. <\/p>\n

\u201cCrazy thing to joke about honestly. Sincerely, someone who thankfully survived,\u201d one person commented. Another agreed, arguing, \u201cWhat a wild thing to post during Domestic Violence Awareness month.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the podcast, Shepard went on to reveal that he had \u2018no clue\u2019 about the backlash for over a week and a half before it finally came to his attention, as he admitted: \u201cI was alerted by someone that this whole thing was happening. I didn’t know. And Kristen knew through her publicist but didn’t tell me. So I actually didn’t know, and this was brought to my attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, it was only someone checking in with him to see if he was okay, that alerted him to an issue at all – yet it was surprisingly Glaser that took issue with the backlash moreso than Shepard and Bell. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut it’s like, that’s the thing that bothers me is, like, this is what you’re talking about right now of all things? You f—ing losers. You’re wasting your time getting angry about this. Go read some files,\u201d she argued.<\/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 www.unilad.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dax Shepard has broken his silence surrounding wife Kristen Bell\u2019s controversial anniversary post, six months after she faced an intense backlash for the eyebrow raising comments. On the Monday, April 6 episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, the actor, 51, sat down with guest Nikki Glaser and opened up about the post, which featured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2361703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367,345140],"class_list":["post-2361702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-kristen-bell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dax-Shepard-weighs-in-on-wife-Kristen-Bells-controversial-anniversary.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361704,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361702\/revisions\/2361704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}