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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are one of Hollywood’s favorite couples, but that does not mean that their marriage is always smooth sailing. Although many celebs might try to keep any tension under wraps, Shepard recently explained that the duo never wanted to feign a perfect marriage–and his words seem to echo Bell’s sentiments exactly.
Last year, During a conversation on Justin Long’s podcast,”Life is Short with Justin Long,” Bell openly admitted that a “screaming” match with her husband had gotten so intense that they “both blacked out.”
She told Justin, "In fact, we had this pretty incredible fight recently. Incredible. I mean like top of the lungs screaming."
The argument started about chores around the house. (Relatable.) Bell explained, "It was about things around the house that I felt I needed help with. We have a relationship where you are supposed to be able to say, 'I need your help with this.'"
"I left a note and I was like, 'Hey dad! Would you mind taking the two towels in the dryer and folding them,’ and then like one other thing. I thought, 'That’s 10 minutes of work,'" she said. "At that point, the house was getting to be a lot for me. The keeping up with the mom stuff, the shoes being outgrown, I'm the one ordering that, whatever."
It quickly devolved after that. "We both blacked out and got into a fight and I don’t actually remember what happened, but what transpired was a lot of volume, a lot of harsh words being thrown around, and it was an angry, angry fight about how nobody does anything for anybody else," Bell said.
She added, "I grabbed my pillow and stomped down the hall, and I sleep in the front room and I’m crying. And we don’t talk for three days."
Although fans appreciate how honest the couple is about their marriage (both the good and bad aspects of it), some might not understand why exactly they decided to be quite so open about their disagreements.
And Bell had an answer for them: "Something happened with Dax and I early on where we decided we were never going to not be asked about our relationship. So if we were going to talk about it, let’s make sure we show the good, the bad and the ugly and how we handle it. Let’s not make it saccharine, and we really try hard to not make it saccharine, and we talk about the fact that we do fight, we do go to therapy, we dislike each other a lot sometimes."
On a recent interview on Sunday Today with Willie Geist, Dax Shepard said something strikingly similar, explaining their decision to be so candid when it came to heir relationship.
"We don't want anyone to think we met and it's been easy 'cause if that's someone's expectation of a relationship and certainly a marriage, it's a bad expectation to have," he explained.
