Christina Applegate Jokes That Dax Shepard ‘Bodily Assaulted’ Her While Acting as ‘Security’ for Wife Kristen Bell

Cristina Applegate was a visitor on this week’s episode of Shepard’s Skillful Armchair podcast, where she recalled an incident in which Shepard apparently pushed Applegate and her ex-husband. (To be honest, Applegate’s specific model of humor makes it difficult to know the path between fact and hilarious fiction.)

O No life for me the actress said she was trying to get backstage to see her friend, Rhett George, at a performance of Hair at the Hollywood Bowl – which Kristen Bell was also present – ​​when Applegate said Shepard acted as “security” to keep the crowd away.

“We go backstage to see Rhett and Kristen and you were in front of us, and you were participating in security and you actually pushed me against a wall,” Applegate said. “Of course, you pushed me right up against the wall and said, ‘Go again! Take it again!’”

“There was no way I could have pushed a woman, especially you,” Shepard said, amid laughter.

“Me and my husband, Martin (LeNoble),” Applegate shot back, clarifying the report.

“Maybe I need to push your husband,” Shepard joked.

“No, you pushed all of us,” Applegate stated, before mocking the ridiculousness of the situation. “Like I was going to try to get a piece of the fabric from her clothes… but I was like, ‘Really, man? We’ll see Rhett George.’”

Although at the time Applegate wasn’t happy with Shepard at all, she said now, she kind of admires the fact that the Paternity the actor was trying to protect his wife from the large crowd at the show.

“We weren’t happy with you, but I look at it fondly and laugh, since you were really protective and that’s really cool, but you said, ‘Come back everyone!’ like she’s Beyoncé or something – not to mention Kristen…,” Applegate shared.

“She’s not Beyoncé,” Sheppard interrupted. “No,” Applegate clarified. “…But it was like, the hands were coming back and I was like, ‘Fuck this guy.’ I like you.

Sheppard, while accepting the moment jokingly, was having difficulty “reconciling” the Applegate story with the photo he had of himself, but still took the moment to apologize to the longtime movie and TV star.

“Of course I’m having a hard time reconciling this story with the image I have of myself, so let’s start there, but secondly, I’m sorry. In fact,” Sheppard stated, sounding honest. “I must have felt like a lot of people were trying to win her over and maybe I overreacted.”

Applegate accepted Sheppard’s apology and reiterated that she “laughs” at the moment now, before acknowledging that it was very “crowded” behind the scenes.

“Her dressing room was on the left and Rhett George was at the fitting, I think,” Applegate said, as she continued to recall the incident. “I was just trying to talk to my friend Rhett George. I didn’t know your wife at the time.”

“What I’m sure of is that I clearly didn’t see it was you,” Sheppard said in response. “Because obviously I’m a huge fan of yours, always have been, and I feel like we’ve known each other before this.”

“I apologize because it was the first time,” Applegate interrupted. “I think that was exactly the moment it happened… Martin and I were like, ‘We just got pushed. Like he was recently physically attacked by Dax Sheppard. Bodily… assaulted.’”

While this obviously wasn’t their greatest experience together, Applegate, who worked with Bell on Dangerous Mothershad other interactions with Shepard, in which he thanked the good-natured man and his wife for the way they helped defend celebrity children from being photographed by paparazzi.

“What you have done for our children, in public, we cannot thank you enough,” Applegate said. “I had a child at the moment.”

She continued: “You had a child after we Dangerous Mothers, I feel… everyone was there. Mila (Kunis) had the newborn. And it was really sweet, because it was a movie about mothers.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Applegate, who was candid about Your battle against a series of sclerosis (MS)shared how she uses humor to deal with her prognosis.

“I make these jokes because if I don’t I’ll suffocate. I will be complete,” Applegate shared. “I’m not ready for therapy yet. I’ll get there. When someone says, ‘Have you accepted this as your new regular?’ No, fuck it, completely not.

O Married to Young alum went on to share some of the symptoms she experiences due to her multiple sclerosis prognosis.

“I have 30 head injuries, like herpes sores, mainly, head sores. My best problem is behind my right eye, so my right eye hurts a lot,” she said, noting that the lesions present differently in each person with MS.

As for the ways her body responds, she noted, “My hand starts to feel weird and then I get a twitching feeling sometimes in my brain, not all the time.”

Part of what makes her need to be so open about her battle with multiple sclerosis comes from how she dealt with having breast cancer again in 2008.

“When I got breast cancer at 36, I went out and was the big woman saying, ‘Oh, I like my new breasts!’ Which may be all scarred and fucked up. What was I thinking? Applegate remembered. “My first interview was with Robin Roberts when I had cancer and I’m sitting there lying about how I felt.”

After “lying” about how she was doing while battling cancer, she said: “I fell against the wall and cried because it was a lie. Everything I said was a damn lie. It was me trying to convince myself of something, and I don’t think that helped anyone.”