Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are struggling to control the damage over their controversial post which caught fire on social media.
The 45-year-old actress sparked a heated debate over a joke which seemed “tone-deaf” about the seriousness of domestic violence.
Days later, her husband, 50, and Bell were called out once again for a resurfaced interview from 2012.
During the interview, the Nobody Wants This star and Shepard shared a story from a drive to a promotional event for their movie, Hit and Run.
The Good Place actress was heard saying, “He was so excited. We drove to brunch and the first thing I said, five minutes into the ride, I said, ‘This sounds like it’s gonna break.'”
The actor and podcast host kept a poker face as he replied that he was “very offended,” adding, “And then I hit her several times.”
Bell jokingly added, “And then I got beat up, and guess what — I never opened my mouth again.”
The untasteful joke re-emerged amid the couple’s ongoing controversy which began after Bell’s 12th wedding anniversary caption.
“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, sparking backlash from social media users.