Dax Shepard got emotional about his two daughters while interviewing Dove Cameron on a recent episode of his “Armchair Expert” podcast.
Shepard was brought to tears when he noted the “Descendants” star, whose own father died by suicide when she was 15, had the phrase “We’ll be friends forever“ tattooed on the back of her hand.
“You did make me cry today though because I was seeing the tattoo that you got and I have little girls that I say that same thing to all the time,” Shepard, 50, said, talking about Lincoln, 12, and Delta, 10, the daughters he shares with wife Kristen Bell.
“Oh my god, you’re going to make me cry,” Cameron, 29, responded, clearly touched. “That’s so beautiful.”
“Yeah, if they had to tattoo that on them at some point because something went sideways ... It was just heartbreaking,” Shepard said, his voice breaking.
Cameron held up her tattoo for Shepard's co-host Monica Padman to see, causing Shepard to tear up again.
“I say it to them, like, almost every day on the way to school. Like, ‘You know, we’re going to be best friends for the rest of your life, the rest of my life,’” he told Cameron.
“I’m like, we’re f------ best friends from this day to the end,” he added.
Cameron told Shepard she was touched by his love for his girls.
“Well, and that’s what it should be, right?” said the singer and actor. “I’m so moved to hear you say that about your girls because I truly was best friends with my dad. He tried his best, you know.”
Shepard then commented on the special bond fathers and daughters share, saying, “It’s inconceivable that anything can be sweeter.”
Shepard and Bell, who tied the knot in October 2013, often share stories from their life at home with Lincoln and Delta during interviews.
In September 2024, Bell revealed during a visit to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that she and Shepard experienced a few days of “free-range parenting” during a family vacation in Denmark, Iceland and Norway.
“The hack is, when we went to Copenhagen, we stayed at this hotel that was right at Tivoli Gardens, which is a 7-acre theme park ... Anyway, the hotel opens up into the theme park and so we just were kind of like, ‘Are we going to like free-range parenting and roll the die here?'" recalled Bell, 44.
Bell said Lincoln and Delta did great on their own and enjoyed the independence.
“They woke up at 6:00 every morning. They scanned their bracelets to go outside. Didn’t see them for seven hours. Just running around Copenhagen,” said Bell.
“And that was OK?” asked Kimmel.
“Apparently. They’re both alive. We all returned home,” joked Bell.
Bell added that having time to themselves was “heaven” for her and her husband.
“We just had coffee, we played Spades, and then around 3:00, we’d be like, ‘Anybody see them?’” she said. “And then one of them would run up and need a Band-Aid or whatever. It was very cool.”
