India, Nov. 11 -- In an appearance on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast, Molly McNearney, head writer and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, laid bare the emotional toll stemming from family members who supported Donald Trump.

She says a rift cut through blood ties and tested her marriage. McNearney, also the wife of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, described how her husband's outspoken criticism of Trump has made relatives' support for the President feel like a personal betrayal.

Growing up in a "very conservative, Republican" household in St. Louis, McNearney said she once held sympathy for relatives whose worldview she now says diverges so sharply from her own that continuing the relationship became untenable.

"It hurts me so mu...