How Cheryl Hines overcame ‘pain’ of husband RFK Jr.’s sexting scandal

Cheryl Hines obliquely referenced her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sexting scandal in her newly released memoir, “Unscripted.”

The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” alum, 60, said that she was in Italy on holiday when her husband called to “warn me of another breaking story.”

The “ambiguous story” involved a “political journalist who said she had some communication with a former reporting subject that had turned personal,” but it was “never physical.” It was widely rumored to be Kennedy, which turned out to be true.

Last year, Page Six exclusively reported that former New York magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi, 32, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 71, had engaged in a nearly year-long online affair.

A source told us that the two told each other they loved each other (over the phone) every time they talked and had “incredible” sex over FaceTime.

A Kennedy spokesperson said that he “only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece.”

Hines wrote that the unsavory headlines were “leaving me with the feeling of being unimportant to him…It was the end of the line for me.”

She continued to stay on in Europe, and when she returned home, Kennedy was eager to talk, although she “felt so distant from him.”

The Emmy nominee shared that for the next few days, she and Kennedy “stopped everything and drilled down on the truth.”

“We talked about all of the painful times we’d been through in the last few years and what we meant to each other,” and eventually they “tightened” their bond.

She discredited Nuzzi in a recent podcast.

“I think you always have to consider the source, right?” the actress quipped. “So that’s where I start. And then it ends with a conversation with Bobby.”

Hines married Kennedy in 2014. It is her second marriage and his third. His second wife, Mary Richardson, died by suicide two years after he filed for divorce. She had accused him of being a “sexual deviant” during their contentious divorce proceedings.

The political scion and former heroin addict, who ran for President before dropping out, has been a controversial figure for his anti-vaccine beliefs.

Page Six exclusively reported that Nuzzi is working on a book that will include the sexually charged text messages between her and Kennedy.