Photo:Kristen Bell/Instagram
Kristen Bell/Instagram
WhenKristen BellandDax Shepardfound themselves stuck at Boston Logan International Airport with their daughters last month, the family planned to camp out on the floor.
The coupledocumented the July 26 ordealon Instagram, explaining that a nine-hour wait due to flight delays had caused them to spend $600 on makeshift beds and sleeping supplies.
However, not everyone was sympathetic to their situation. Some social media commenters questioned Bell’s claim that there were no hotel rooms availability within 50 miles of Boston’s Logan International Airport.
On the Aug. 14 episode of Shepard’sArmchair Expertpodcast,Bell, 43, and Shepard, 48, addressed the backlash to the incident.
“But, here’s the thing,” Bell replied. “You’re treating everyone as though they have the emotional and intellectual capacity that you have, or that your circle of friends [has]. A lot of people just get on the internet and they say ‘buddy, what should I Google?’ And they just Google angry, mad stuff. They want to be angry about something.”
During the podcast conversation, theGood Placestar went on to describe the criticism aimed at the couple.
“It was like: ‘You’re not being kicked out,’ ‘Of course there were hotels,’ ‘I can’t believe you spent $600 on pillows,’” she said.
“One of my favorite ones was ‘More like, no hotels up to your standards,'" Shepard interjected. “I was like, we’re sleeping on the floor. . . just the notion that the video is us on the floor.”
Bell reflected on negativity on social media, acknowledging that it’s not only celebrities who get trolled online.
“You have to stop trying to prove things to people because it happens everywhere,” she said. “It doesn’t just happen to us, it happens to every single person, no matter how known you are on social media. Someone makes a comment and you just have to ignore them because they’re not on your level.”
“People suffer from outrage addiction,” she added.
“I guess my conclusion after this — which you guys may or may not agree with — it was so hostile and angry that I thought, ‘This has to be part of the political schism,’” Shepard said. “We have to somehow just represent liberals. And no matter what we would do, it would be proof that we’re crazy or stupid or whatever. It felt like there’s something political.”
source: people.com
