Cheryl Hines admitted during a recent interview that her husband, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had offered her the chance to stage a “fake” separation in order to divert politically motivated attacks away from her.

Hines told Dr. Phil McGraw that Kennedy had known he would be a political target, but that he’d made the offer in the hopes that he could draw some of the negative attention away from her, sparing her the stress of constant scrutiny.

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🚨NEW: Cheryl Hines tells Dr. Phil how RFK Jr. offered her fake separation so she’d stop taking heat for his politics🥹

“Things got really intense. I didn’t consider it.”

“I didn’t marry him because of his politics. Why would I leave him because of his politics?”@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/19slzW2zKr

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Dr. Phil raised the question, asking whether it was true that Kennedy had offered her an out, and then immediately followed up by asking whether she had actually considered going through with it.

“Well … Things got really intense,” she said. “I didn’t consider it.”

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Hines went on to say that Kennedy had drawn a significant amount of criticism for his stance on vaccines during COVID — particularly vaccine mandates — and that she had often gotten lumped in with him when he was attacked.

When Kennedy voiced his unpopular opinions, Hines said, people would turn on her and ask how she could stay married to him if those were the things he believed. Others would refuse to spend time with her because she stayed with him, saying, “I can’t be around you because you’re married to him.”

Hines brushed it all off, saying that she’d known she and Kennedy would have disagreements before they were married, and nothing had changed. “I didn’t marry him because of his politics. Why would I leave him because of his politics?”

President Donald Trump responded early on Sunday to reports of breakout fighting between Thailand and Cambodia, saying that the United States had quickly stepped in to bring the leaders of both nations back around to honoring the peace agreement they’d made months earlier.

Trump shared the news in a post to his Truth Social platform on Sunday morning, taking a moment to lay out a number of other conflicts in which both his first and second administrations had intervened with positive results.

“I am pleased to announce that the breakout fighting between Thailand and Cambodia will stop momentarily, and they will go back to living in PEACE, as per our recently agreed to original Treaty,” Trump began, citing the treaty that was pushed through in July of 2025, brokered by Malaysia but under trade pressure from the United States. “I want to congratulate both great leaders on their brilliance in coming to this rapid and very fair conclusion. It was FAST & DECISIVE, as all of these situations should be!”

“The United States of America, as always, was proud to help! With all of the wars and conflicts I have settled and stopped over the last eleven months, EIGHT, perhaps the United States has become the REAL United Nations, which has been of very little assistance or help in any of them, including the disaster currently going on between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump continued. “The United Nations must start getting active and involved in WORLD PEACE!”

The new peace agreement between Cambodia and Thailand was signed on Saturday and took effect at noon that day — and will put a stop to all military movements and airspace violations, The Associated Press reported. Once the ceasefire has held for 72 hours, Thailand will also be required under the new deal to return 18 Cambodian soldiers who have been held prisoner since prior to the last peace agreement in July.

Cambodia’s Tea Seiha and Thailand’s Nattaphon Narkphanit, defense ministers, at a checkpoint on their shared border.