Journalist Olivia Nuzzi wrote in her new book "American Canto" that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not actually have a dead parasite in his brain, as social media has so often joked about.

Nuzzi wrote about Kennedy as "the Politician," detailing their "non-physical affair" and saying that she loved him, including his brain.

The New York Times published the first details from the book last week. Among the claims by Nuzzi are that Kennedy called her "Livvy," wrote poems for her, and wanted her to have his baby.

Nuzzi's career as a journalist for New York Magazine and other publications was upended by her admission of a "digital" affair with Kennedy while he was running for president as a Democrat, then an independent in 2024.

The "brain worm"

Nuzzi said that she did "not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny."

"I loved his brain," she wrote. "I hated the idea of an intruder therein."

She explained how Kennedy found out that the "shadow" a doctor saw on his brain was not, in fact, a parasite.

"A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all," she wrote.

"It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain."

Landed on their feet

Nuzzi and Kennedy both landed on their feet after the news of the emotional affair came out.

He made a deal with frontrunner Donald Trump to drop out of the race for a cabinet position, and Nuzzi is now the West Coast editor of Vanity Fair.

She said that she was always aware that many people thought Kennedy was a "madman."

"He was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad," she wrote. "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."

I guess affairs are not as damaging to people's careers as they used to be. As for what his wife thinks, that is probably a whole different story.