Dax Shepard on Kristen Bell’s Support Before His Dad’s Death
Dax Shepard is forever grateful for this kindness.
The Parenthood alum recently detailed how his wife Kristen Bell showed up for him—literally—when he was feeling overwhelmed by the number of people visiting his dad, Dave Shepard, in the hospital while he was dying in 2012.
“His room was an unending parade of many, many people, and they were all lovely and well intentioned, but it put me in the position of them grieving and me having to comfort them,” Dax recalled to Anderson Cooper during a conversation for the CNN host’s podcast All There Is With Anderson Cooper at the New Orleans Book Festival. “I was starting to resent that I couldn’t just be in there with my dad. I was starting to get really quite overwhelmed with that.”
He decided to step out to his car for a few minutes, where he called Kristen “just to vent.” What happened next Dax described as “unbelievable.”
“I was complaining, and she said, ‘It’s okay, I’m here. Look to the left,’” Dax said, growing emotional as he recalled the moment. “We live in California, I’m in Detroit, and I look to my left, and she’s standing there, seven months pregnant.”
