A video has resurfaced of Dax Shepard joking about hitting wife Kristen Bell just days after the actress faced backlash for her “tone-deaf” anniversary post .

Shepard and Bell were being interviewed by SheKnows while doing press for their 2012 movie “Hit and Run” when he made the off-color joke about striking her.

In the clip, Bell recalled getting into a car with Shepard after he spent two years “souping it up.”

“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,'” Bell said.

Shepard deadpanned that he was “very offended.”

“And then I hit her several times,” Shepard joked, prompting Bell to add cheekily, “And then I got beat up, and guess what — I never opened my mouth again.”

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