Dax Shepard is finally addressing Kristen Bell‘s controversial anniversary post.
In honor of their 12th wedding anniversary back in October 2025, the 45-year-old Nobody Wants This actress shared an Instagram post where she wrote that Dax, 51, once said to her, “I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I’m heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would.”
The post faced a lot of backlash, especially since Kristen shared it during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
While speaking with guest Nikki Glaser during the Monday (April 6) episode of his Armchair Expert podcast, Dax shared his first public comments about the situation.
Keep reading to find out more…The conversation came up when Nikki said she initially thought about including a joke about his comments when she hosted the 2026 Golden Globes in January, but ultimately decided not to because it was “old news by then,” and she didn’t “want to make his life harder.”
When Dax asked to hear the joke she considered using, Nikki said, “Die My Love. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Sorry, Baby. These are not just captions to Dax Shepard’s Instagram post for Mother’s Day, or for Christmas, or captions for his anniversary post. These are movies nominated tonight.”
Dax laughed when he heard the joke.
Nikki went on to admit that she didn’t reach out the check on Dax when he first started getting backlash over the comment because she wasn’t sure if he even knew he was getting called out.
“Well, I was alerted by someone that this whole thing was happening,” Dax recalled. “I didn’t know. And Kristen knew through her publicist but didn’t tell me. So I actually didn’t know, and this was brought to my attention.”
He claimed that “a week and a half” went by of him having “no clue” about the issue.
Dax finally learned about what was going on when he asked Kristen about it after someone had reached out to check on him.
“But it’s like, that’s the thing that bothers me is, like, this is what you’re talking about right now of all things?” Nikki responded. “You f–king losers. You’re wasting your time getting angry about this. Go read some files.”
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