Kristen Bell Talks to Her Daughters About ‘Daddy’ Dax Shepard's Drug Addiction
glamour.comto pain medication.“I hate the word ‘taboo.’ I think it should be stricken from the dictionary,” Bell in a new interview, per . “There should be no topic that’s off the table for people to talk about.” keeps this same energy when discussing “hard topics” with ; nine-year-old Lincoln and eight-year-old Delta. “I talk to my kids about drugs, and the fact that their daddy is an addict and he’s in recovery, and we talk about sex,” she said. “There are all these ‘hard topics’ that don’t have to be if you give the person on the other end your vulnerability and a little bit of credit.”In September 2020, revealed on his Armchair Expert podcast that he relapsed after 16 years of sobriety. “The thing I love most about Dax is that he was able to tell me and tell us and say, ‘We need a different plan,’" Kristen Bell later told , . “I will continue to stand by him because he's very, very worth it.”Shea added, "He's addicted to evolving.
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.’”In her most recent interview, Bell said “vulnerability” is “the most attractive characteristic on the planet.” She added, “I believe that vulnerability only begets vulnerability.
We have so many issues as humans. Each and every one of us is so hard to get along with. It’s true. But if you can maintain a sense of vulnerability, people read you in a different way.
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