Cheryl Hines puts aside marriage woes to pay respect to Ethel Kennedy as RFK Jr. spotted for first time since his mother's death

Cheryl Hines broke her soundlessness amid rumored marital strife with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. implicit his matter with newsman Olivia Nuzzi to station a solemn remembrance of Kennedy's parent Ethel.

Ethel Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy dynasty and widow of erstwhile United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, died astatine the property of 96 earlier Thursday aft suffering a stroke.

Hines was seen wearing her wedding ringing connected Sunday, contempt swirling rumors that she's getting acceptable to divorce her allegedly philandering husband aft it was revealed Nuzzi and RFK Jr. had a sexting relationship.

She made nary notation of it but did notation her hubby portion posting a tribute to her mother-in-law Ethel Thursday.

'My parent successful law, Ethel Kennedy, Bobby's mother, passed this morning. It has been my large grant to person shared laughter and emotion with Ethel,' she wrote, captioning a photograph of Ethel with her husband's begetter and erstwhile Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Sr. 

'Her charisma, contented and spot volition unrecorded connected with maine successful each representation of her. Bobby and I spent galore lukewarm nights successful Hyannis Port having meal with her and proceeding stories from her bonzer life,' Hines continued. 

'She ever made maine laugh. She was ne'er excessively superior but erstwhile she needed to be. She dressed to nines with bare feet. She volition beryllium missed. My emotion is with the family.'

DailyMail.com spotted RFK Jr. California connected Thursday exiting a car, wearing fastener down shirt, bluish jeans and glasses. 

Kennedy posted his ain tribute to his beloved parent connected societal media aboriginal Thursday.

'She wrung joyousness from each moment, but for 56 years she has spoken with yearning of the time she would reunite with her beloved husband,' helium wrote. 

'She is with him now, with my brothers David and Michael, with her parents, her six siblings, each of whom predeceased her, and her “adopted” Kennedy siblings Jack, Kick, Joe, Teddy, Eunice, Jean, Rosemary, and Patricia.'

His last words connected his mother: 'I recognition her for each my virtues. I’m grateful for her generosity successful overlooking my faults.' 

Last week, Hines and RFK Jr. got java unneurotic contempt reports that the 2 have barely spoken implicit the past 2 weeks since reports surfaced of his alleged matter with Nuzzi.

The sighting came aft DailyMail.com revealed that adjacent friends are expecting Hines to record for divorcement amid the unfolding controversy.

Late past month, Nuzzi, 31, the Washington, D.C. prima governmental analogous for New York magazine, acknowledged having a sexting narration with Kennedy, 70, portion covering his campaign.

Kennedy, who suspended his autarkic bid for president and threw his enactment down Donald Trump successful August, claimed the 2 had lone met erstwhile once Nuzzi interviewed him for the magazine.

Nuzzi's ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza is reportedly taking a 'leave of absence' aft a bombshell tribunal filing alleged helium blackmailed her implicit her rumored affair.

Nuzzi claimed successful DC Supreme Court that Lizza 'explicitly threatened to marque nationalist idiosyncratic accusation astir maine to destruct my life, career, and reputation—a menace helium has since carried out.' 

Lizza volition beryllium taking a mutually-agreed permission of lack from his enactment astatine Politico. 

It comes arsenic the Kennedy household reels from the decease of 1 of the past remaining links to the 'Camelot' epoch of JFK's presidency.

Ethel, the sister-in-law of the precocious President John F. Kennedy had suffered a changeable successful her slumber past week and was rushed to hospital. 

The 3rd of her 11 children - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - ran a high-profile run for president successful 2024 arsenic an autarkic candidate, earlier endorsing Donald Trump successful August.

His campaign, and his views connected vaccines, led to part successful the Kennedy clan. Some different members denounced him and threw their enactment down the Democratic nominee. 

However, Ethel Kennedy ne'er commented publically connected her son's actions. 

Ethel Kennedy was widowed astatine the property of 40 erstwhile Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. 

She was by her husband's broadside erstwhile helium was fatally changeable successful the room of the Ambassador Hotel successful Los Angeles connected June 5, 1968, conscionable aft winning the Democratic statesmanlike superior successful California.

She was large with their youngest kid astatine the time.

It was among a bid of devastating tragedies for her family.  

Ethel's brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated successful Dallas little than 5 years earlier.

Her parents were killed successful a level clang successful 1955, and her member died successful a 1966 crash. Her lad David Kennedy aboriginal died of a cause overdose, lad Michael Kennedy successful a skiing accident, and nephew John F. Kennedy Jr. successful a level crash.

Following her husband's assassination she ne'er remarried and dedicated the remainder of her beingness to philanthropy and issues including weapon control. 

She founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and worked tirelessly for satellite peace.

She spent her summers connected Cape Cod successful the family's storied compound successful Hyannis Port, but mostly stayed retired of nationalist life. 

Her decease was announced by erstwhile Rep. Joe Kennedy III - a grandchild - who present serves arsenic the U.S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland nether President Joe Biden.

'It is with our hearts afloat of emotion that we denote the passing of our astonishing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy,' Joe Kennedy said connected X. 'She died this greeting from complications related to a changeable suffered past week.' 

'Along with a lifetime's enactment successful societal justness and quality rights, our parent leaves down 9 children, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren, on with galore nieces and nephews, each of whom emotion her dearly,' helium said.

'She was a devout Catholic and a regular communicant, and we are comforted successful knowing she is reunited with the emotion of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy; her children David and Michael; her daughter-in-law Mary; her grandchildren Maeve and Saoirse; and her great-grandchildren Gideon and Josie,' Joe Kennedy said. 'Please support her successful your hearts and prayers.'