Cheryl Hines has hit back at former President John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, after Schlossberg asked her to call up the family of a child who died of measles.
The actress and wife of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Schlossberg’s polarizing cousin, told the Wall Street Journal that she “[doesn’t] understand what’s going on with him.”
“[Schlossberg’s] behavior—I don’t even want to say anything, because anything I say, he’s going to think, he’s going to be … excited that someone’s talking about him,” she said.
Jack Schlossberg (R) appears with his mother, Caroline Kennedy, in 2023. Kennedy has called her vaccine-skeptic brother-in-law a “predator.” NBC/Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty I
Hines’ comments come five months after Schlossberg put the onus on her to speak out about the rising incidence of measles, a deadly but preventable disease. RFK Jr. is a prominent vaccine skeptic who has promoted the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.
In an Instagram post on March 6 (which he has since deleted), Schlossberg said that he wanted to ask the Curb Your Enthusiasm star for a “favor.”
“I need