Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard slam ‘hostile’ haters angry over their stranded airport drama

Actress Kristen Bell and her comedian husband Dax Shepard have slammed critics who called their recent airport ordeal a stunt.

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard slam ‘hostile’ haters over airport drama

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 cancelled] 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.”

Dax Shepard opens up about their airport ordeal on his podcast Armchair Expert.

Wife Kristen Bell said she doesn’t understand the backlash they received.

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.”

The Gossip Girl star – she narrated the original and rebooted series, now streaming on BINGE – 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.’”

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The pair were stranded at Boston airport two weeks ago.

They documented their entire ordeal on Instagram.

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 symbolise liberals.”

Bell says all the nearby hotels were booked out at the time.

The couple and their two daughters were forced to sleep in the terminal.

Whatever the case, Bell chimed in that she doesn’t give any “time or energy” to “sh***y comments” online.

“Ultimately, it’s not about us, it’s about the person making the comment,” the Good Place star said. “I don’t really think about it.”

Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell believe their political stance is the reason for the backlash. Picture: Christopher Polk/Getty Images

The couple, who tied the knot in 2013, are no strangers to slamming social media trolls while raising their girls.

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.”

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission