Cheryl Hines has offered a brief public message of support to her grieving husband amid continued uncertainty over the state of their marriage, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The actress was one of many to comment on a lengthy statement posted to Instagram by Robert F Kennedy Jr following the death of his mother, Ethel, on Thursday aged 96.
Amid a scroll of hundreds of comments Hines’s tribute said simply, ‘This is beautiful. Your mother was very proud of you’ ending with a white heart emoji, symbolizing support for the grieving.
Last week Hines and Kennedy were spotted out together for the first time since his alleged affair with political reporter Olivia Nuzzi left the actress shocked and blindsided, rocking the couple’s ten-year marriage
RKF Jr noted that his mother passed surrounded by many of her nine children and her friends and noted that she had ‘wrung joy from every moment,’ of her life
Hines’s very circumspect comment has only fueled rumors that the couple has barely spoken in person in recent weeks
Kennedy wrote his mother had ‘spoken with yearning of the day she would be reunited with her husband’
Members of the Kennedy family including Ethels son Max and daughter Rory began gathering at the family compound in Hyannisport, Massachusetts prior to Ethels funeral
In his post Kennedy, 70, had praised his mother’s ‘rich and eventful life.’ He noted that she had passed surrounded by many of her nine children and her friends and noted that she had ‘wrung joy from every moment,’ of her life.
But for the past 56 years, Kennedy wrote, his mother had, ‘spoken with yearning of the day she would be reunited with her husband, assassinated former Attorney General Bobby Kennedy.
Yet, however sincere her words, considering her husband’s heartfelt outpouring, Hines’s very circumspect comment has only fueled rumors that the couple has barely spoken in person in recent weeks.
Far from presenting a united face in the midst of their shared grief over Ethel’s death, Hines and Kennedy have notably only posted separate responses on their social media feeds.
Writing on her own Instagram Hines recalled her mother-in-law as a woman with ‘charisma, wisdom and strength.’ But when she offered her love, it was not to her allegedly wayward husband but more globally, ‘to the family.’
Hines said in her tribute to her late mother-in-law that her love was, not with her husband but, with the family
Last week Hines and Kennedy were spotted out together for the first time since his alleged affair with political reporter Olivia Nuzzi left the actress shocked and blindsided, rocking the couple’s ten-year marriage
Last week Hines and Kennedy were spotted out together for the first time since his alleged phone sex affair with political reporter Olivia Nuzzi left the actress shocked and blindsided, rocking the couple’s ten-year marriage.
They were seen stopping in for a quick Starbucks near the Malibu home where Nuzzi first met Kennedy when she came to interview him for a New York magazine article.
Hines kept her look casual, wearing black T-shirt and jeans. Her face was impossible to read behind the large dark shades she wore but there was no hiding the telling detail that she was, as she has consistently been of late, ringless. However Kennedy was wearing his ring when he was pictured by DailyMail.com in California on Thursday.
RFK Jr. and wife Cheryl Hines were seen stopping in for a quick Starbucks near their Malibu home
Hines kept her look casual, wearing black T-shirt and jeans. Her face was impossible to read behind the large dark shades she wore but she wasnt wearing a ring, as she has often been seen lately
Bobby Kennedy Jr. was still wearing his ring when he was pictured inLos Angeles on Thursday after his mothers death
Ethel’s death may stall Hines’s next steps but DailyMail.com last week revealed that close friends are expecting her to file for divorce.
The actress, whose relationship with Kennedy has come at considerable personal cost thanks to his often-outlandish views and public support of Donald Trump, was left reeling last month when it emerged that Kennedy had allegedly had a sexting affair with the 31-year-old political correspondent for New York magazine.
Kennedy claimed the two met only once when Nuzzi interviewed him in California.
The plot took another twist when Nuzzi’s ex-fiancé, DC Politico correspondent Ryan Lizza, 50, was accused of blackmailing his ex by threatening to make public compromising pictures and texts which she had exchanged with Kennedy.
Nuzzi lost her job – at least temporarily – when she was put on administrative leave in the aftermath of the relationship’s exposure.
Kennedy may be set to lose much more.
But for now, all focus falls on celebrating Ethel’s life, with her children and grandchildren flooding the internet with tributes and photographs to a woman whom they paint as force of nature and nurture.
Kerry shared many tender memories of her mother Ethel on Instagram
Ethel’s daughter Kerry, 65 posted a picture of herself with her mother sitting on a golf cart and captioned it simply, ‘Mummy
Mums spirit shining on our home this evening, said Kerry on Instagram as a beautiful crimson painted the sky
All focus falls on celebrating Ethel’s life, with her children and grandchildren flooding the internet with tributes and photographs to a woman whom they paint as force of nature and nurture
On Wednesday Ethel’s daughter Kerry, 65, posted a picture of her Cape Cod home sitting beneath a crimson and purple sky and captioned, ‘Mums spirit shining on our home this evening.’ Ex-husband and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, 66, responded, ‘Your mom is letting you know she’s in heaven.’
Kerry and Cuomo’s daughter, Michaela, 27, posted her own memories of her grandmother showing fun-filled pictures of Ethel with her grand-daughters messing around in a swimming pool in West Palm Beach.
Another showed Ethel dressed in costume as a hippy John Lennon look-alike complete with long dark wig and pink sunglasses. Elsewhere Kerry posted a picture of herself with her mother sitting on a golf cart and captioned it simply, ‘Mummy.’