Kristen Bell vows to stand by husband Dax Shepard after addiction relapse because ‘he’s very, very worth it’
Her husband Dax Shepard admitted last month that he had relapsed and started using the painkiller Oxycodone after 16 years of sobriety.
And in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres to air Wednesday, Kristen Bell said she’s committed to standing by the actor and podcast host as he battles his demons.
‘He is actually doing really great. … Everybody is up against their own demons,’ the actress, 40, said in a promotional clip for the daytime chat show posted to EllenTube.
Strong: Kristen Bell said in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres for Wednesday’s episode of her daytime chat show that she’s committed to standing by husband Dax Shepard after his relapse
Shepard, 45, announced on his Armchair Podcast on September 25 that he’d started using Oxy after being hurt in a motorbike crash in August.
Bell, who married Shepard in 2013, explained that he had shared with her that he was ‘faltering’ and needed to do some ’emotional work’ to find out why he relapsed.
‘He’s addicted to evolving,’ the star of Frozen and The Good Place told Ellen.
‘He was like, ‘I don’t want to risk this family and I did, so let’s put new things in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Committed couple: Bell, who married Shepard in 2013, explained that he had shared with her that he was ‘faltering’ and needed to do some ’emotional work’ to find out why he relapsed
Working at it: ‘I will continue to stand by him because he’s very, very worth it,’the actress, 40, said, adding that they were ‘going back to therapy’ together
Addict: On the September 25 episode of his Armchair Podcast, Shepard, 45, spoke about his history of painkiller addiction and how he’d hidden the resurgence of his dependency on Oxycodone following a motorbike crash in August
On the September 25 episode of his podcast, the actor spoke about his history of painkiller addiction and how he’d hidden the resurgence of his dependency on pills.
He admitted he felt immense guilt about hiding ‘this enormous secret’ and described himself as ‘just very scared and… very, very lonely.”
The couple, who shares daughters Lincoln, seven, and Delta, five, are now ‘going back to therapy’, Bell shared.
‘I will continue to stand by him because he’s very, very worth it,’ she added.
Shared: ‘He’s addicted to evolving,’ Bell said of Shepard in her Ellen interview. ‘He was like, ‘I don’t want to risk this family and I did, so let’s put new things in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again’
Celebrity couple: Shepard had been sober for 16 years before his relapse. He and bell are parents to daughters Lincoln, seven, and Delta, five