Dax Shepard got very emotional while recalling 's touching gesture during his father's final days.
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Dax Shepard got very emotional while recalling his wife Kristen Bell's touching gesture during his father's final days. Shepard, 51, shared the story in a recen...
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Shepard, 51, shared the story in a recent interview with , as he and the journalist spoke about grief.
The actor remembered caring for his father, Dave Shepard, in a Detroit hospital after he had been diagnosed with a small-cell carcinoma in 2012, and feeling overwhelmed by the 'unending parade' of well-wishers who came to visit.
'I was starting to resent that I couldn’t just be in there with my dad, and I was starting to get quite overwhelmed with that,' The Parenthood alum said.
At one point he stepped outside the hospital to call his then-fiancée Bell, 45, to vent about his feelings. The actress was seven months pregnant at the time and had stayed behind in .
'I was complaining, and she said, "It's okay, I'm here. Look to the left,"' Shepard recalled as he broke down in tears.
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Dax Shepard, 51, broke down in tears while recalling his wife Kristen Bell's, 45, touching gesture during his father Dave Shepard's final days in a new interview with Anderson Cooper
The actor was caring for his father, who was battling small-cell carcinoma in Detroit in 2012, while a seven-month pregnant Bell remained in Los Angeles; They are seen in 2025
'Mind you, we live in and I'm in Detroit,' Shepard went on. 'And I look to my left and she's standing there, seven months pregnant.'
Shepard praised his 'intuitive' wife, stating, 'She had flown, she knew I was struggling and she had flown and not told me and figured out where this hospital was and was standing next to the car. What a champ, you know?'
At one point he called his then-fiancée to vent about feeling overwhelmed. 'I was complaining, and she said, "It's okay, I'm here. Look to the left,"' Shepard recalled as he broke down in tears
'And I look to my left and she's standing there, seven months pregnant,' he said through tears
The couple then got to introduce his father to their unborn child. 'He got to feel her belly,' the actor said, as Cooper shared a photo of the moment with the audience
Cooper also grew emotional while reading a 2013 blog post by Shepard, which detailed the tender moment: 'If I live to be a thousand, I will still be in debt to my wife for giving him that one last thrill'
Dave died just three months before Shepard and Bell's daughter Lincoln was born.
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The pair went on to get married in October of that year. They welcomed their second daughter Delta in December 2014.
Dave died three months before Shepard and Bell's daughter Lincoln was born. The pair went on to get married in October of that year. They welcomed their second daughter Delta in 2014
'Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: "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,"' Bell wrote with a heart emoji.
Commenters flew into a frenzy of outrage, slating Bell for the 'offensive' and 'insensitive' joke and noting it was Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
In January, Shepard also came under fire for his comments about Sabrina Carpenter after declaring he is 'obsessed' with the blonde beauty.
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During a recent episode of Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, with Saturday Night Live star Marcello Hernandez as a guest, he made a comment about the singer that left people uncomfortable.
'If I'm you again and I'm 28, I'm going to try to date her with all my might. Are you not trying your hardest to marry her?' he asked the SNL star on the show.
However, Hernandez asserted his loyalty to his girlfriend and swiftly shut down the idea by reminding Shepard that he is in a relationship.
'I'm in a relationship with a Dominican girl. She's an architect. She's unreal. She went to Yale,' he told the actor.
'But Sabrina's awesome,' he added.
Listeners were horrified by Shepard's comment about the Please, Please, Please singer, taking to social media to slam him as 'creepy.'
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