Kristen Bell was back on the red carpet just hours after she appeared to skip a scheduled appearance on the Today show amid controversy over a recent social media post
Bell, 45, joined her Nobody Wants This castmates — Adam Brody, Justin Lupe, Jackie Tohn and Timothy Simons — for a screening of the hit Netflix comedy’s season 2 premiere and a panel conversation at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Wednesday, October 22.
The actress posed on the red carpet in a black silk top with spaghetti straps and black palazzo pants. She completed her look with a beret-style hat.
Bell, Brody and their fellow costars later took to the stage for a Q&A discussion with “Happy Sad Confused” podcast host Josh Horowitz.
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Earlier on Wednesday, the Veronica Mars alum appeared to miss a scheduled appearance on NBC’s Today show with costar Lupe, 36. Lupe appeared on the program alone, but she did bring up Bell during her interview. (Us Weekly reached out to Today and Bell’s representative on Wednesday, but did not immediately hear back.)
“Kristen’s obsessed with pranks,” Lupe shared. “She will come to set and she’ll just pull up different pranks on her phone and show them to me. So I knew that that was kind of her love language, was pranking. And then I also know that Kristen — if you’ve met her, you know she’s obsessed with biohacking. She’s done everything there ever is to do with hacking the bod.”
Lupe said that Bell has a glucose monitor and wears a weighted vest on set, prompting Lupe to devise a prank on the actress.
“Basically, I was like, I’m going to convince her that I’m drinking my own pee. For two months, I staged different variations of me drinking fake pee, which was actually chamomile tea,” Lupe said.
According to the Succession alum, Bell “fully believed” and even asked a doctor whether Lupe’s hoax habit was “safe.”
Bell has been in the headlines over the last week after she posted a controversial Instagram post to mark her and husband Dax Shepard’s 12th wedding anniversary.
“Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: ‘I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I’m heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would,’” Bell wrote alongside a photo of the couple embraced in a hug.
The caption quickly prompted backlash from some Instagram users, one of whom noted, “What a wild thing to post during Domestic Violence Awareness month.”
The National Network to End Domestic Violence said in a Tuesday, October 21, statement to Page Six, “There’s nothing funny about domestic violence ‘jokes’ that trivialize the very real fear, trauma and pain that millions of victims and survivors face each day. Especially during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we all have a responsibility to support victims and survivors, to invest in proven solutions and to speak about this issue with the seriousness it deserves.”
Bell has yet to address the controversy, though she did limit comments on her anniversary post.
