Jimmy Kimmels wife urged Trump-voting family not to back him during election and theyve since cut ties

Jimmy Kimmel’s wife admitted she fired off “many” emails to Trump-supporting family members begging them not to vote for him in last year’s election — and has since cut ties with her right-wing relatives.Molly McNearney — the head writer and executive producer of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” — told the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast that she felt deeply betrayed by relatives who backed President Trump, saying their vote was effectively a vote against her TV-host husband and family.

“I’ve sent many emails to my family, like right before the election, saying, ‘I’m begging you.Here’s the 10 reasons not to vote for this guy.

Please don’t.’ And I either got ignored by 90% of them or got truly insane response from a few,” McNearney said on Thursday’s episode, which she appeared on with Kimmel.“It hurts me so much because of the personal relationships I now have, where my husband is out there fighting this man, and to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family.

And I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it.”The TV writer said she was “angry all the time” at certain aunts, uncles, and cousins for helping elect Trump, yet claimed she still feels “sympathy” for them, calling them “deliberately misinformed.” She added she’s now tighter with family members who align with her politically.The couple’s appearance comes about two months after Kimmel’s late-night show was briefly yanked from the air follow his Sept.

15 monologue, claiming that Tyler Robinson, accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was likely linked to the “MAGA gang.” “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” the comedian told his viewers during the controversial segment.Sinc...