Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard.Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBC/Getty
Kristen Bellis continuing toopen upabout how she and husbandDax Shepardnavigated hisdrug relapse.
TheGood Placestar, 40, recently toldSelfthat after his relapse last year, Shepard, 46, told her she could ask him to do a drug test at any moment. He gave her “full privilege, maybe, to call him on anything,” she said.
“You can drug-test me whenever you want. I’m going to buy some tests. I’m going to have them in the house,” she recalled of what Shepard told her. “If you ever feel nervous, I want you to have access to this and I’ll do it, no questions asked.”
Bell said she responded with, “Maybe, some day. Why not?”
Both Bell and Shepard, who share daughtersLincoln, 8, andDelta, 6, have frequently spoken out publicly about Shepard’s battle with addiction.
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Shepard first revealed he had relapsed after 16 years of sobriety on the Sep. 25 episode of hisArmchair Expertpodcast, in which explained that he used painkillers following a motorcycle accident. The episode was recorded on Sep. 21, when Shepard was seven days sober.
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“We realized, ‘Okay, our math wasn’t working,'” Bell toldSelfof Shepard telling her about the relapse. “I mean, he admitted it so quickly. It was like, ‘I did something that I don’t want to do. I’m going down a bad road. I want help. I want your help,’ and I looked at him and I said, ‘Okay, you come up with the new math.'”
“He’s just good at trying, and that’s all you can ask of anyone,” she later added. “No one’s perfect.”
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A month after Shepard’s initial confession, Bell toldEllen DeGeneresthat her husbandwas “doing great.”
“He is actually doing really great. … Everybody is up against their own demons,” she said during an appearance onTheEllen DeGeneresShowin October. “Sometimes it’s anxiety and depression. Sometimes it’s substance abuse.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, please contact the SAMHSA substance abuse helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.
source: people.com
