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When it comes to the dynamics of their family life and their marriage, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have always been open books, but it seems like their honesty might be coming back to bite them. After the couple’s most recent confessions about their relationship, people are hoping a love like theirs never finds them, and apparently, that’s making Dax pretty upset.
After he’s been called “controlling” and “abusive” to his wife, Dax is speaking out. According to him, not only are those accusations not true, but they’re also insulting to Kristen, who is obviously choosing to stay with him.
Dax is tired of being accused of being a ‘terrible person.’
Dax aired out his true feelings on this week’s episode of his Armchair Expert podcast, saying that while he usually tries to ignore the criticism, this time, it “hit Kristen’s doorstep really hard” and he couldn’t let it go.
“[The] weird narrative that is surrounding me as like controlling, abusive, now flirting with people in public, which I don’t do… It’s so frustrating,” he said, adding that he has always had the goal of “being the opposite” of the abusive men who were part of his childhood.
“I don’t ever yell at my children. I don’t yell at my wife. To have given it my all to be the opposite of what now some group of people is saying I am, it’s hard,” Dax said, adding, “She’s what, she’s sitting in a house with her two daughters and modeling some abusive relationship? Like, it’s very offensive to her.”
He claims people misunderstood what Kristen said about his flirting tactics.
The latest round of accusations against Dax were sparked by something Kristen said during her own recent appearance on Armchair Expert, explaining how
“There’s a couple things Dax does where he doesn’t have to look up and wink at me, but I know that he’s just being the best boy,” she said on the October 26 episode. “We’ll be at dinner and, like, he’ll say to the waiter or waitress, he’ll go, ‘Wow, you have incredible eyelashes, gorgeous eyes. Great, great job.’ But that’s flirting with me because he just made someone else feel good.”
People took it to mean that Dax flirts with other women in front of his wife and for some twisted reason she thinks that’s sweet, but now he says that’s not what she meant.
“We’re saying, I flirt with Kristen by tipping people a lot. And I flirt with Kristen by complimenting people,” he said. “If you think I’m complimenting like hot young waitresses, yeah, you got a problem. I’m finding the dude that I don’t think’s had a compliment in a while and tell him I love his shows. It’s always somebody that I want to make their day.”
People still aren’t convinced he’s the good husband he says he is.
Judging by the comments on a TikTok video E! News shared of Dax shutting down the accusations this week, people aren’t buying his excuses.
“As soon as he said ‘I think SHE phrased it in a way…’ I said ah there it is,” one commenter wrote.
Another said, “He may gaslight her. He’s not gaslighting me. Come on.”
Looks like Dax may have actually made things worse for himself if he was really that worried about what people think of him as a husband.
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