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What’s not to love about Kristen Bell? Whether you first fell for her as Veronica Mars, Anna in Frozen, or Eleanor in The Good Place, Bell’s charm has made her a star and a social media mainstay.
On Sunday, she took to Instagram to warm our collective hearts once again with an honest, heartfelt tribute to her husband, Dax Shepard, on the 14th anniversary of his sobriety.
“I know how much you loved using. I know how much it got in your way. And I know, because I saw, how hard you worked to live without it,” she wrote.
Shepard has been open about his abuse of drugs and alcohol. In an interview with Playboy in 2012, Shepard recounted:
“I just loved to get fucked-up—drinking, cocaine, opiates, marijuana, diet pills, pain pills, everything. Mostly my love was Jack Daniel’s and cocaine. I was famous for going out on Thursday night to have a couple of beers, and that just led all the way to Saturday night. I would meet people here and there, and then I’d be in a hotel room with four strangers. Oh, they’re tapping out? Well, someone new showed up. Well, what’s your name? Yeah, I’d love to go dancing. I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn’t go to jail.”
But, as Bell said in her post, “I’m so proud that you have never been ashamed of your story, but instead shared it widely, with the hope it might inspire someone else to become the best version of themselves. You have certainly inspired me to do so.”
“You have become the fertilizer in the garden of our life, encouraging everyone to grow,” Bell said of her husband of nearly five years.
Bell and Shepard have been together since 2007 and have two children.
If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, check out the American Society of Addiction Medicine for helpful resources.
H/T BuzzFeed