Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are brushing off backlash after documenting their travel debacle at an airport in Boston.
Two weeks after getting kicked out of Logan Airport amid extensive flight delays and eventually finding refuge with friends of friends, the couple clapped back at claims they lied about all nearby hotels being booked.
“Everyone knew before us [that their flights were canceled] because they kept kicking ours,” Shepard, 48, told “Armchair Expert” podcast listeners Monday. “So by the time we acknowledge[d], ‘No, this flight isn’t going out tonight,’ everyone’s already grabbed the hotel rooms.”
While the actor was “confused” about “what makes someone mad about that story,” Bell, 43, blamed the controversy on a lack of “emotional and intellectual capacity,” as well as an “outrage addiction.”
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are defending their story about being stranded at an airport.kristenanniebell/Instagram
The couple were faced with “s–tty comments” from “hostile” haters last month.kristenanniebell/Instagram
Bell blamed trolls’ “outrage addiction,” while Shepard believes the backlash was “political.”daxshepard/Instagram
The “Veronica Mars” alum explained, “[People] want to be angry about something. It was anything. It was like, ‘You’re not being kicked out,’ ‘Of course there were hotels,’ ‘I can’t believe you spent $600 on pillows.’”
Shepard speculated that only a “political schism” could have led to such a “hostile and angry” response to his and Bell’s Instagram uploads documenting the drama with daughters Lincoln, 10, and Delta, 8
“We have to somehow just represent liberals,” he mused. “And no matter what we would do, it would be proof that we’re crazy or stupid or whatever. It felt like there’s something political. I don’t know why you’d be so mad, unless we just symbolize liberals.”
“We have to somehow just represent liberals,” the actor said.armchairexppod/Instagram
Bell, for her part, said haters don’t have “emotional and intellectual capacity.”armchairexppod/Instagram
Whatever the case, Bell chimed in that she doesn’t give any “time or energy” to “s–tty comments” online.
“Ultimately, it’s not about us, it’s about the person making the comment,” the “Good Place” alum said. “I don’t really think about it.”
The couple, who tied the knot in 2013, are no strangers to slamming social media trolls while raising their girls.
The pair documented their travel debacle with daughters Lincoln and Delta via Instagram in July.Instagram
In July 2021, Shepard started a Hollywood-wide bathing debate when he spoke to Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher about not washing their children every day in a podcast episode.
Bell subsequently appeared on “The View,” where she said she waits until Lincoln and Delta “stink” to bathe them, spawning showering confessions from Jake Gyllenhaal, Cardi B and more stars.
The Golden Globe nominee called the entire debate a “joke” the following month, telling Entertainment Tonight in August 2021 that “people are acting like this is an actual Supreme Court case.”
