The gossip frenzy round Health and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s relationship with journalist Olivia Nuzzi has taken a poetic flip.
On Saturday, Nuzzi’s ex-fiance, fellow high-profile journalist Ryan Lizza, printed the second a part of a Substack sequence outlining the breakdown of their relationship. Lizza partially attributes the erosion of the connection to Nuzzi’s romance with Kennedy.
Within the piece, Lizza shared an undated “note” he mentioned Kennedy despatched to Nuzzi, noting that Nuzzi had characterised it as a “poem.” However what’s in a reputation? Right here’s what the alleged missive mentioned:
“Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,” Kennedy is claimed to have written by way of textual content message. “Drink from me Love.”
The message reportedly went on, “I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I’ll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow. ‘Dont spill a drop’. I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.”
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Nuzzi’s upcoming tell-all e-book, “American Canto,” particulars an emotional affair between her and the married Kennedy when she was overlaying his 2024 presidential marketing campaign. Final 12 months, information of a sexting scandal between the pair led to Nuzzi shedding her job with New York Journal, the place she had written a profile on Kennedy, and triggered the tip of her engagement with Lizza.
Kennedy, who mentioned final 12 months he had by no means met Nuzzi in individual exterior of her work on the profile, stays married to comic Cheryl Hines.
Lizza, who was let go from his personal job as Washington correspondent at The New Yorker following allegations of sexual misconduct in 2017, started telling his aspect of the Nuzzi-Kennedy affair in a multi-part sequence this week.
Neither Nuzzi nor Kennedy instantly responded to a request for touch upon the poem. Based on Lizza, it was one in every of many poems, a few of which have been “too explicit to print.”
