Olivia Nuzzi’s tell-all ebook is lastly right here — and it paints an image of obsessive love, medicine and dangerous poetry from the “worm”-filled mind of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is simply referred to as “The Politician.”
The 71-year-old Secretary of Well being and Human Companies allegedly wept as he instructed Nuzzi, “I want I might simply be with you” — and mentioned she made him really feel as free because the second he was thrown from his runaway horse as a baby.
Nuzzi, 32, additionally claims in “American Canto” that the Kennedy scion needed to impregnate her.
“I’d take a bullet for you,” Kennedy allegedly instructed the previous New York Journal journalist — though that modified when their affair grew to become public and he requested her to take a metaphorical bullet for him, she writes.
“If it’s simply intercourse, I can survive it,” he allegedly mentioned, seemingly asking her to not reveal their relationship as something extra advanced. (Nuzzi has at all times maintained the affair was not consummated.)
She additionally particulars the abrupt ending of their clandestine romance and the way Kennedy despatched her an “acid word” — even threatening to name the FBI on her ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza, who allegedly leaked information of their affair. In response to the ebook, it was Nuzzi who ended up chatting with the FBI, fearing that she had been hacked.
Nuzzi first met Kennedy, who’s married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines, in 2023 when she interviewed him for New York Journal throughout his failed presidential bid. She was then engaged to Lizza, a former Politico journalist.
The Publish has reached out to reps for Kennedy and Hines.
The glamorous blonde writes how Kennedy, who famously struggled with substance abuse up to now and has lengthy spoken of being sober, would smoke the hallucinogenic drug DMT in secret whereas his spouse was out of the home.
The ebook describes DMT as sending customers “into the stratosphere of ego demise and again to earth in fifteen minutes.” When she requested what it was like, Kennedy replied, “it’s simply your traditional psychedelic expertise.”
Nuzzi additionally writes about listening to The Politician did one other drug “that generally interfered together with his potential to carry out the work of campaigning for workplace. After I raised the topic, he denied it.”
Kennedy, she says, liked to indicate her images from his youthful years — and regale her with tales about his previous.
He instructed her about one summer season when he lived with musicians Keith Richards and John Phillips — and The Mamas and The Papas singer bought a pharmacy so they’d have entry to amphetamines.
Nuzzi claims that as their love intensified, Kennedy instructed her, “I would like all the pieces from you, Livvy.
“He at all times mentioned that. Largely, it appeared candy, earnest. ‘Every part is yours,’ I mentioned. I at all times mentioned that. He instructed me that he needed to have his child. This appeared earnest too,” she writes.
Nuzzi writes that they’d such an intimate relationship that, throughout their video calls he was typically shirtless and she or he might see indicators of his life — just like the toiletry bag full of so many pharmaceuticals it might barely shut.
When, on his tenth wedding ceremony anniversary, Nuzzi noticed a framed picture of Hines and Kennedy within the background of their name, “he flipped it over, out of sight,” she writes.
In a single saccharine second, Kennedy recounts his childhood horse driving accident.
“He closed his eyes. They’re a startling sort of blue. Not blue because the seas however blue because the flame. When he opened them once more, he was crying. [Being thrown by a horse] was probably the most free he had ever felt, he mentioned, and he looked for that feeling, for that freedom for his entire life. He felt that freedom, he mentioned, with me.”
She, in flip, was upset by tales a couple of worm infiltrating his mind.
“I hated the thought of an intruder therein,” Nuzzi writes. Though he mentioned a health care provider had instructed him it was not a worm, it was too late to cease what had already turn into “screwy legend.”
As for an additional screwy story about Kennedy — that he dumped a bear carcass in Central Park in 2014 — Nuzzi admits that she satisfied him to “get forward” of the story after a journalist discovered about it in 2024. “It should assist me with rednecks and harm me with liberals,” Kennedy in the end determined.
There was additionally “express” poetry.
“I’m a river. You might be my canyon. I imply to movement by means of you. I imply to subdue and tame you. My Love,” Nuzzi says Kennedy wrote — including that he additionally “described, together with different feralities, his plans for my ‘womb.’”
However issues got here to a head, the journalist writes, when her mentor — podcaster Kara Swisher confirmed to The Publish that it was she — discovered concerning the Kennedy affair and went to Nuzzi’s bosses at New York Journal.
She admits that she lied when confronted and claims that her boss instructed she pen a “tell-all” for the journal and “write your means out of this.” (By way of a New York Journal spokesperson, editor-in-chief David Haskell declined remark.)
When the story broke in September 2024, Kennedy instructed her Hines was “hysterical” in Milan and had refused to be seen with him in public till after the election, whereas his alliance with Trump was “fragile.”
“I would like you to take a bullet for me,” he mentioned. “If it’s simply intercourse, I can survive it.” If it was something extra he couldn’t.”
Kennedy learn Nuzzi a message he had despatched to Lizza, accusing him of violating their privateness and stalking Nuzzi.
He threatened to go to the FBI, however “he then referred to me as a stalker,” Nuzzi mentioned incredulously. “I’m sorry, I needed to exculpate myself,” he instructed her.
After leaving her job, Nuzzi moved to Malibu, CA. and was employed as West Coast Editor at Vainness Truthful, though that position might now be up within the air.
Regardless of shedding her fiancé, her residence and her job, the creator admits she nonetheless stored tabs on Kennedy’s affirmation listening to and was surprised — after all the pieces — to get message by way of his bodyguard
“Simply, effectively, he’s sorry,” the Bodyguard mentioned. “I instructed him to let me deal with this. I would like you to learn between the strains.”
Maybe considerably chastened, Nuzzi writes: “A politician’s best trick is to persuade you that he’s not one. And what’s a politician? Any man who desires to be liked greater than different males and thru his pursuit reveals why he can’t love himself.”
