Independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some “cognitive issues” he suffered more than a decade ago could have stemmed from a parasite — a worm that he said “ate a portion” of his brain before it died.
According to a New York Times article published on Wednesday, Kennedy had sought treatment in 2010 for what a friend was worried could be a brain tumor. He had been experiencing memory loss and a few other symptoms and had just lost his uncle — the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) — to brain cancer, so he went to get checked out.
While his initial diagnosis was a tumor, one doctor suggested his scans indicated something else: a parasite.
Kennedy recalled the doctor’s words in a 2012 deposition, saying that he believed the damage “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
