A new book from journalist Olivia Nuzzi appears likely to overdeliver on the intimate details of her alleged sexting affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ― one that saw her part ways with New York Magazine as the publication’s Washington correspondent.
Among the many claims she makes, according to a lengthy interview with the New York Times ahead of the book’s release: Kennedy still uses psychedelics.
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The journalist never names Kennedy, The New York Times reports, but the previously well-reported scandal makes it clear about whom she is writing.
Nuzzi didn’t get into an extreme level of detail about what and when Kennedy, who’s now the secretary for health and human services, might have imbibed, though she did say he’s smoked dimethyltryptamine, a potent hallucinogen more commonly known as DMT.
A request for comment from HHS regarding the secretary’s alleged drug usage wasn’t immediately returned.
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“She writes that despite being ‘sober’ for decades, Kennedy told her that he still uses psychedelics, and even smoked dimethyltryptamine, or DMT,” the NY Times wrote of her book. “She told him she ‘liked uppers. I told him that I took Adderall.’”
Other sordid details in the book, “American Canto,” include his pet name for her, “Livvy,” and that the septuagenarian anti-vaxxer wanted Nuzzi, now 32, to have his baby.
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The story also relays how “they chose favorite parts of each other, she writes: He chose her mouth. She chose his nose.”
In an amusing twist, Kennedy’s wife, Cheryl Hines, also has a new book out. “Unscripted” is on shelves now.
Nuzzi’s is scheduled for a Dec. 2 release.