Jerry Oppenheimer is a New York Times bestselling author of biographies including ‘Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of Dreams.’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man who could become the next health and human services boss, had suffered health fears for years due to his terrible heroin addiction and compulsive sexual promiscuity, insiders have revealed.
‘A source close to the police officer told DailyMail.com that he was “constantly afraid of contracting a sexually transmitted disease due to the number of women he slept with during his marriage.”
‘He always got himself checked to make sure there was nothing wrong.’
Meanwhile, Kennedy always feared that he was in danger when he took drugs, especially heroin.
‘At one point he put his own life in even greater danger by scoring a fatal score from some shabby dealers in Harlem.
‘It is amazing that he is alive today, and ironic that he has been appointed to oversee better health for Americans.’
Kennedy, 70, who would oversee a department with about 80,000 employees if confirmed, feared he would be arrested on possession charges due to his past chronic heroin use, sources told DailyMail.com.
‘Bobby was constantly worried about contracting blood viruses such as hepatitis B and C.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, 70, had expressed past heroin use and fear of sleeping, sources told DailyMail.com.
Bobby Kennedy Jr. drinks a can of Miller beer during his father’s professional celebrity tennis tournament at Forest Hills Stadium in New York on August 26, 1972.
Kennedy and his mother, Ethel, who died last month. According to Sosurces, he worked as an assistant prosecutor in Manhattan through family connections.
‘Maybe it was.’
If confirmed, Kennedy would become the first member of the once-powerful Kennedy dynasty to be a member of the presidential cabinet since his father was attorney general under his older brother, John F. Kennedy.
It would be his second job in government. His first job, as an assistant DA in Manhattan, lasted only one year due to drug addiction.
He received a law degree from the University of Virginia but failed the bar exam. He got his job only through strong family ties.
But working in the city that never sleeps, the temptations were too much. One of them was the easy availability of heroin, his favorite drug. He began collecting drugs disguised as a streetman in a boarded-up ghetto building that was the site of the infamous Harlem shooting. gallery.
Colleagues in the DA’s office doubted he would get a high job and ‘seemed incoherent’.
A source told DailyMail.com: ‘He was such a mess. It was tragic. We were afraid it would end badly.’
Meanwhile, his first wife, Emily Black, who is also a New York lawyer, was ‘going through hell’ with his addiction, a source close to him said.
His job at the DA’s office lasted only a year before he took time off to deal with his drug problem in rehab.
He received probation and performed 1,500 hours of community service after being arrested and charged with concealing a fifth of a gram of heroin in his carry-on bag on a flight to South Dakota.
When a friend was arrested on drug charges, Kennedy left the DA’s office in a failed attempt to come clean.
He flew to Rapid City, South Dakota, where his old friend Bill Walsh promised to help him. But passengers called the police after seeing his condition – ‘white as a sheep and cold as ice’ – with loss of muscle control and a weak pulse.
A search of his luggage turned up heroin.
He was arrested and charged with possession of about a fifth of a gram of heroin in his carry-on bag, a felony in South Dakota punishable by two years in prison and a $2,000 fine.
Instead, he received two years of probation along with 1,500 hours of community service.
Kennedy, who had been expelled from two boarding schools as a teenager for substance abuse and other bad behavior, was admitted to a New Jersey hospital known for rehabilitation and psychiatric care a few days after his overdose.
‘I was admitted to hospital to treat a drug problem. “I am determined to overcome this problem,” he said at the time.
‘I am deeply sorry for the pain this situation will cause my family, my parents, and the many Americans who admire the Kennedy family.’
Kennedy with female guests at a tennis tournament in 1975. His diary, released in 2013, lists his many illicit sexual relationships. On one day in 2001, he wrote, he had three sexual encounters.
Kennedy and his first wife, Emily Ruth Black, took their two children, Kathleen and Robert III, to the 1991 Addams Family premiere party.
At the hospital, where he stayed for five months, he was given interferon, which is sometimes used to treat hepatitis C virus caused by intravenous drug use.
In addition to his drug addiction, RFK Jr. had sexual obsessions.
His diary, released in 2013, records his many illicit sexual relationships. On one day in 2001, he wrote, he had three sexual encounters.
In the same month’s diary, a woman’s name was mentioned 22 times over 13 consecutive days.
But Kennedy insisted that it was he who was tempted.
He once said: ‘So I was looking for a way to screw up. I am like Adam, living in Eden, but I can have everything except the fruit.
‘But all I want is fruit.’
According to a close associate, ‘Bobby tracked down women who were at risk of sexually transmitted diseases and even AIDS, but control was not his.
“Bobby tracked down women who were at risk of sexually transmitted diseases and even AIDS, but control wasn’t his job,” a source said. Even though they made it clear that the risk of sexually transmitted diseases was always on the minds of politicians.
Besides guilt, avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was always on his mind.’
His health problems related to drugs first became public in the late 1970s in London, when the Fleet Street press reported that he was suffering from ‘health problems’.
At the time, he was studying for a degree in International Relations studies at the prestigious London School of Economics.
I am like Adam, living in Eden, but I can have everything except the fruit. But all I want is fruit.’
One news account was titled ‘Worried about Bohemian Barbie’ and described him as ‘very thin’ and noted that he had been ‘sick for several weeks’. The exact nature of his illness is unclear.
The story’s author had promised to meet with him for an interview, but Kennedy was too sick to cancel.
The reporter ‘found it very difficult to understand what he was saying…’ He is a charming and serious young man, but his bohemian lifestyle will now become a cause for concern.
‘Bobby seemed destined for a career in politics. But at the moment that doesn’t seem very likely.’
It soon emerged that a group of young women calling themselves ‘bobby sitters’ were holding a ‘vigil over his health’ at his flat in London.
As reports emerged, Kennedy, wearing an old jacket and tattered jeans, told the press:
Returning to the United States, he went to visit friends in Alabama when he was hit by a rock, fell off a dock, fell into shallow water, suffered neck and back pain, and was hospitalized in Mobile.
Donald Trump surprised Washington Thursday by announcing that he was nominating Kennedy to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Kennedy recently thanked his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, for being by his side throughout his sex scandal with journalist Olivia Nuzzi.
Kennedy has revealed that he uses testosterone replacement therapy, which is why he looks so chiseled.
The appointed health czar, who along with President-elect Trump has promised to make America healthy again, has experienced several health problems as he has aged.
In a 2012 deposition, he admitted that what was thought to be a brain tumor was actually ‘a bug that got into my brain, ate part of it, and then died.’
Perhaps he suffered amnesia as a result. They claim the problem has since gone away.
He also suffered from heart rhythm abnormalities caused by atrial fibrillation, which can be fatal. It is known that he was hospitalized at least four times because of this.
Today, his most audible and noticeable issues have to do with his voice and the ripped body of a weightlifter ten years his junior.
He suffers from spasmodic dysphonia, a rare and chronic neurological voice disorder that was first diagnosed at age 42. This condition causes a person to sound like an annoying frog and causes involuntary spasms in the muscles that open and close the vocal cords.
According to experts, this disease is known to be a neurological disease.
When photos surfaced of Kennedy’s massive muscular body working out at Gold’s Gym in Venice, California, where he lives with his third wife, Curb Your Enthusiasm actress Cheryl Hines, some people thought the video was a joke meme.
Reports suggested that he was taking steroids. However, Kennedy revealed that he uses testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). According to the health czar, these treatments promote healthy aging and toned muscle mass.
TRT is prescribed in the medical community to treat low testosterone (a condition that ironically also includes low sex drive).
