Kristen Bell says she's told her daughters that 'daddy is an addict
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are notoriously open and honest both with their fans and with their children. Making amends and apologizing is an important thing in our family because humans leave carnage wherever they go Bell says.I really respect when someone does something wrong or hurtful and they apologize. I’m like, Yeah, right on.That’s important. Kristen Bell says If there’s one thing I want to teach my kids, it’s how to make amends and that it’s for themselves, so they can like who’s in the mirror a little bit more. that conversations she and husband Dax Shepard have with daughters Delta and Lincoln might be shocking for some, but make sense for her parenting style.I know it’s shocking, but 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 says. 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 Kristen Bell believes in keeping an open relationship with her daughters.Kristen Bell explains the importance of open conversations, even about difficult subjects, between herself, husband Dax Shepard and daughters has always been pretty open about his history with addiction, but it’s definitely interesting to hear that his daughters are up-to-date on this one.Speaking more on Dax’s addiction, Kristen shared that, when she met her husband ‘he’d just recently started to be in recovery He went on to admit that he started to get ‘shadier and shadier’ with his pill intake, and got to a point where he was lying to Kristen and other people he loved.Kristen was able to forgive Dax for lying to her, though, and shared that ‘making amends and apologising’ is one of the most important things in their family. The couple has been married since 2013 and is raising two little girls together – Lincoln, nine, and Delta, eight.Dax, 48, had a substance abuse problem for over a decade before achieving sobriety in 2005, the year he turned 30.2020, he initially concealed his crisis from his wife, but she was ‘nothing but supportive’ when he confessed, an Us Weekly insider said.
Dax chose to keep this a secret from Kristen because he felt so ashamed at the time and didn’t
want to hurt her. They have such a strong marriage and have always been there for each other
through thick and through thin,’ the source spilled.Once he ‘had to come clean Kristen is said to have expressed no blame or anger on her side just love, care and determination to get through this together.They knew when I relapsed, we explained: “Well, Daddy was on these pills for his surgery and then Daddy was a bad boy and he started getting his own pills said Dax. ‘Yeah, we tell them the whole thing.Both Lincoln and Delta have been apprised of the fact their father ‘goes to an AA meeting every Tuesday and Thursday,’ Dax added.One of the cuter moments was, I wanna say my oldest daughter was three, back when my daughters wanted to be with me 24 hours a day he dished. ‘She said Where are you going? I said,l m going to Dax recalled. She said Why do you have to go said Because I m an alcoholic and if I don’t go there, then I’ll drink and then I’ll be a terrible dad.
