Tig Notaro shared extra Monday about her fallout with former buddy and podcast co-host Cheryl Hines over her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., telling MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace that she needed to “shake myself out of denial” that it was good and over.
Sitting with the MS NOW host on her “The Best People” podcast, Notaro recalled why she determined to take away herself from “Tig and Cheryl: True Story” as RFK Jr. gained political momentum and touted beliefs that went in opposition to her personal.
“I think that I needed to stop doing the podcast because it was so ridiculous, it was so stupid that it was hard to be doing that when he was gaining momentum and speaking,” she mentioned. “People would interrupt my stand-up shows and yell, ‘Bobby is crazy!’ And I was telling Cheryl, I know it’s a small percentage that pushes back online or yells out at shows, but I was like, ‘Man, this is not my world. I don’t want to be a part of this.’ And she was like, ‘I understand.’”
From there, Notaro famous that Hines continued the podcast with comic Rachael Harris — “which I was fine for them to do” — however that it was a choice that Hines appeared at peace with.
“But what was most upsetting to me was that we were in such opposing places, but I continued to reach out to her and send her love and support, because I didn’t know what was going on behind closed doors, because things shifted very severely,” she recalled. “And she would respond very pleasantly — ‘Thanks, lady. Oh, this means so much, and I love you and miss you’ and all of that. But then I realized one day she doesn’t ever reach out to me anymore.”
The comic added: “She’s responds to me, but she doesn’t reach out to me. And I had to kind of shake myself out of denial that she’s gone and OK, I need to let this go. I need to let it go.”
Notaro added that it’s a “bummer” to see Hines give interviews the place their fallout is framed as Notaro reducing Hines free fairly than the opposite method round. (In a November interview with Howie Mandel, as an example, Hines mentioned, “I don’t hold anything against her because that’s what she feels like she needs to do for herself, and she feels like she needs to distance herself from me.”)
“There have been some interviews claiming that I just dumped her and and just left her in the dust because of Bobby, but I was trying to be a friend to her, even though I didn’t feel like I could continue with the podcast,” Notaro informed Wallace. “But it’s been very strange, and I think I’ve moved past the confusion and sadness.”
Watch Notaro’s full “The Best People” interview in the video beneath:
Notaro previously shared that she started taking problem with Hines’ relationship with RFK Jr. because the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress started apparently aligning herself together with his politics.
“When somebody is like, ‘Oh we don’t agree on everything’ within a marriage, that is so vague,” Notaro mentioned on the “Breaking Bread With Tom Papa” podcast in October. Hines had pragmatically used such lines whereas on “The View” or being profiled by The Wall Street Journal. Notaro criticized such vagueness by evaluating it to disagreements she has along with her spouse in regards to the thermostat.
“I think where it has led is … It’s not my world. It’s a hard pass,” she informed Papa on the time, including, “You’re OKing a particular ride for this country to go on.”
Lamenting her “Tig and Cheryl” podcast with Hines, Notaro defined, “It’s really sad, because it did bring me so much joy. And Cheryl did bring me so much joy. But that’s what I’m looking for, is I want to get back to prioritizing people that bring me joy and workloads that bring me joy.”
