Olivia Nuzzi, the political journalist who left her job at New York Magazine over her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., particulars in her new guide her distaste for any jokes about Kennedy’s mind worm.
In the excerpt from “American Canto” shared with Vanity Fair, Nuzzi, who solely refers to Kennedy because the Politician and never by title, writes that she didn’t like to consider the worm in Kennedy’s mind and that typically he would joke about it together with her. But she provides that he advised her there wasn’t really a worm in his mind.
“He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm,” Nuzzi writes. ”‘Baby, don’t fear,’ he stated. ‘It’s not a worm.’ A health care provider he trusted had reviewed the scans of his mind obtained by The New York Times, he stated, and concluded that the shadowy determine was possible not a parasite in any respect. He sighed. It was too late to intervene with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, however a minimum of I didn’t have to fret concerning the worm that was not a worm in his mind.”
In a 2012 deposition reviewed by The New York Times, Kennedy stated he had mind scans performed after experiencing reminiscence loss. While one physician thought it was a tumor in his mind, one other physician advised him there was a useless parasite in his mind. The physician stated the darkish spot that confirmed up within the mind scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Kennedy stated within the deposition.
In October 2024, Nuzzi and New York Magazine parted methods after it was revealed that she had a “personal relationship” with Kennedy, who’s now the secretary of well being and human providers underneath President Donald Trump. The two reportedly started their relationship after Nuzzi wrote a profile on Kennedy that Kennedy on the time known as a “hit piece.”
In Nuzzi’s guide, which comes out subsequent month, she writes that the worm inside Kennedy’s mind — one thing that grew to become a meme and simple late-night joke — wasn’t one thing she favored to consider, though others discovered it “so funny.”
“I loved his brain,” Nuzzi writes. “I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could.”
Other particulars about Nuzzi and Kennedy’s relationship have emerged. In a New York Times profile revealed Friday, it was revealed that Kennedy advised Nuzzi he needed her to have his child and that he’d take a bullet for her. In different components of the excerpt shared with Vanity Fair, Nuzzi writes about fleeing to the West Coast after the connection turns into public. She writes that paparazzi reached out to her, asking to {photograph} her in change for her having management over her picture.
Nuzzi, who advised The New York Times that she hasn’t spoken to Kennedy in additional than a 12 months, was engaged to a different journalist through the time of the alleged sexting scandal. They are not a pair.
Kennedy was and nonetheless is married to actor Cheryl Hines, who has her personal guide out now, “Unscripted.”
HuffPost has reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services for remark. Kennedy has beforehand denied having a romantic relationship with Nuzzi.
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