February 17, 2025: Bell says “foundational trust” is the key to her marriage, telling E! News, “Even if Dax hooks up with the most beautiful person in the world at work, I know he’s committed to our family. I know he’s coming home. I know he loves our children. I know he strives to be a great husband and father.”
For example, she says, “When he got to make out with Minka Kelly on Parenthood, I was like, ‘Yes. Get it.’ We’re married, we’re not dead.” And the same goes for her work with Adam Brody on Nobody Wants This.
“Dax also knows there’s no real threat there,” she insisted, “because Adam and I, if you were to see us in person, there is not chemistry. We bicker all the time. We’re like an old granny and grampy. It’s not hot and heavy on set at all.”
February 9, 2023: Bell says she talks to her children about “hard topics” like their father’s struggles with addiction. “I talk to my kids about drugs, and the fact that their daddy is an addict and he’s in recovery, and we talk about sex,” she tells Real Simple, per Page Six. “There are all these ‘hard topics’ that don’t have to be if you give the person on the other end your vulnerability and a little bit of credit.”
June 19, 2021: During an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, guest-hosted by Chelsea Handler, Bell opened up about how the pandemic effected her marriage. “At the beginning of the pandemic, we were at each other’s throats, and then all the doors locked in our house, like, we had to stay inside, and we were like, ‘Woof, we need to get a handle on the annoyances,’” she said, according to E!. “[Shepard] suggested we go to therapy separately, kinda, so that we could talk shit about each other. And we did, and it’s been great.”
