RFK Jr tells podcaster Theo Von he’s not ‘scared of a germ’ as he used to ‘snort cocaine off toilet seats’ | EUROtoday

Robert F Kennedy Jr. has instructed podcaster Theo Von that he’s “not scared” of germs as a result of he used to “snort cocaine off toilet seats.”

The well being secretary made the remarks throughout a current episode of ‘This Past Weekend’, wherein the pair mentioned their shared historical past of drug habit, which Kennedy has been candid about prior to now. He detailed going to restoration conferences in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“They shut [the rehabilitation meetings] down during Covid,” Kennedy stated. “We still did live meetings every day during Covid, but it was kind of a pirate group… I said, ‘I don’t care what happens. I’m going to a meeting every day.’

“I said, ‘I’m not scared of a germ.’ You know, I used to snort cocaine off a toilet seat, and I know this disease [addiction] will kill me, right? If I don’t treat it, which means, for me, going to meetings every day. It’s just bad for my life. So for me, it was survival.”

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Kennedy has a household historical past of substance abuse and has spoken publicly about his habit to heroin. Last April he recounted how he met the trail of habit on the age of 15-years-old after making an attempt LSD.

The feedback come after the well being secretary introduced $100 million of funding for brand new grants as a part of a pilot program concentrating on homelessness and substance use restoration in eight cities earlier this month.

The funding adopted on from an government order signed by President Donald Trump, titled “The Great American Recovery Initiative,” late final month.

Social media customers have been unimpressed by Kennedy’s candidness over his prior experiences with utilizing medicine in loos. “It shows,” wrote the official X account of New York Governor Kathy Hochul in response to the clip.

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“For some reason I don’t trust this guy on public health,” wrote Malcolm Kenyatta, a Democratic Rep. from Pennsylvania, whereas one other social media consumer added: “The man who oversees our nation’s major health agencies.”

Elsewhere within the podcast Von talked about that he had just lately seen Kennedy with musician Kid Rock in Nashville, Tennessee, and stated he had additionally heard tales of the MAGA acolyte snorting cocaine whereas consuming oysters.

“Yeah, I’m saving a seat for him still [at rehabilitation meetings],” Kennedy replied.