A furious Cheryl Hines is telling confidantes that Olivia Nuzzi is a âfâking liarâ when the journalist claims that she and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. â Hinesâ husband â were in love and that the MAHA leader wanted her to have his baby, sources told The Post.
One Hines friend said the actressâs language âunderscores the intense anger she feelsâ toward Nuzzi, adding that she is âreally, really irateâ about âfalsehoodsâ in the ex-New York Magazine reporterâs book, âAmerican Canto,â due Dec. 2.
âHe would never love THAT woman, let alone have her have his baby,â Hines, 60, reportedly told the friend after Nuzzi, 32, opened up about her alleged sexting affair with Kennedy in an interview with the New York Times last week. âWhat that womanâs claiming is almost laughable if it wasnât so hurtful.â

Hinesâ rep declined to comment.

Nuzzi, who parlayed her scandals into a high-profile job as West Coast editor for Vanity Fair, doesnât name Kennedy, 71, in the book â only referring to the secretary of Health and Human Services as âThe Politician.â She details a mutual infatuation that allegedly played out on FaceTime and in texts, but says the bizarre relationship was never consummated.
Kennedy has publicly denied having a relationship with Nuzzi online or off, and has stated he met her only once when she interviewed him for New York Magazine during his 2023-2024 run for president.
After the scandal broke last year, Hines â Kennedyâs wife of a decade â was âheartbroken,â an insider said, adding that the âCurb Your Enthusiasmâ actress considered divorce and did not wear her wedding ring for a time.
In her own just-published memoir, âUnscriptedâ â which will be competing with Nuzziâs for bestseller status â Hines briefly refers to the scandal in terms of attempting to mend her marriage, which she claims has been strengthened.


âCheryl believed the whole sordid sexting affair was finally in the past,â the insider told The Post. âBut then the stories about Nuzziâs book and her allegations about her relationship with Bobby exploded back in the headlines, and the sât hit the fan.
âCheryl believes Olivia used Bobby, and is now trying to persecute him with her book â to embarrass him, force him out of his job and again injure their marriage.â
An excerpt from Nuzziâs book was published by Vanity Fair, her employer, Monday.


In the book, she acknowledges being in love with âThe Politicianâ only after he admitted being in love with her. She writes that she loved his âblue as the flameâ eyes and his âparticular complications and particular darkness.â Her favorite body part? His nose.
On Monday, Nuzziâs former fiancĂ©, journalist Ryan Lizza, told his side of the story on his Substack â and suggested that Nuzzi also cheated with former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
Jerry Oppenheimer is the author of two books about the Kennedys.
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