Cheryl Hines speaks to her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments on vaccines. – The Hollywood Reporter
Cheryl Hines is weighing heavily after her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., invoked the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in a recent speech about the vaccination mission.
During an anti-vax rally in Washington, DC on Sunday, Kennedy suggested that the situation today is worse for people in America who oppose vaccine regulations than it is for Anne Frank , who escaped from Nazi Germany with his family in a secret compartment inside. a house in Amsterdam for two years before dying in a concentration camp in 1945.
Kennedy, a well-known critic of vaccines, said at the event: “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did. “Today, mechanisms are in place that will make it so that none of us can run and none of us can hide.”
After footage of the speech went viral on social media and drew widespread criticism, one Twitter user tagged Hines to ask for her response.
“My husband’s opinion is not my own reflection,” Curb your enthusiasm star Reply via Twitter in Monday. “While we love each other, we differ on many current issues.”
After another Twitter user tweeted that Hines should have said her husband was “wrong” in comparing the vaccine situation to the Holocaust, the actress replied“Yes I agree with you.”
Hines, who married Kennedy in 2014, then wrote that her first tweet was not “about World War II”. When asked to clarify her first tweet, she posted“I said, ‘Do you stand with your husband. “
Among the responses to Kennedy’s speech was a statement posted to the Holocaust Memorial Museum of the United States. Sunday Twitter Account condemned his remarks as “outrageous and deeply offensive.”