A reporter whose career was derailed over an alleged digital affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has revealed that she was worried about his health following reports that he had a parasitic brain worm—until he told her it wasn’t true.

During his 2012 divorce negotiations, the Kennedy scion, 71, gave a deposition in which he said he was suffering cognitive issues—including brain fog—due to a dead parasite that had burrowed into his brain, which was reducing his earning power.

The New York Times dug up the statements during the 2024 presidential election, launching countless jokes and memes.

But Olivia Nuzzi, 32, the former New York magazine star who was fired for having a “personal relationship” with Kennedy after writing a splashy profile of him in 2023, wrote in a new book that she “w

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