Cheryl Hines Breaks Silence on Husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Alleged Affair With Journalist

“The relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to prevent the appearance of a conflict,” Nuzzi later said in a statement to The New York Times. “I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I’ve disappointed, especially my colleagues at New York.”

A rep for Kennedy also told NBC News, “Mr. Kennedy only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece.”

In the WSJ interview, Hines and Kennedy refused to comment on the scandal directly. But when asked about his wife getting pulled into controversy as a result of his political ambitions, Kennedy said it’s hard to control.

“There is no end, and if you get caught into responding to it, then it drags you into low vibrations,” he explained, “and the trick is to try to stay in the high vibrations.”

Hines and Kennedy have been married since 2014 after going through their own individual, previous divorces.

Last fall, the Curb Your Enthusiasm actress shared a glimpse into what makes her relationship with the controversial Secretary of Health — who promotes vaccination conspiracy theories and at one point falsely claimed that HIV does not cause AIDS — work.

“There has to be a connection,” Hines exclusively told Us in October 2024. “There’s, like, a connection that you look at your husband or your partner and all the crazy going on around you, or you look and you check in and it’s like, ‘OK. It’s going to be OK. We’re going to move through this moment.’ And, you know, a lot of times it’s funny and you can lean over and say, ‘This is crazy balls,’ and have a moment together and then hold your head up high and go to the next thing.”