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Published 08:47 16 Apr 2026 GMT
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has openly admitted that he once cut off an animal's genitalia to look at later on.
The US Health Secretary wasn't exposed by anyone or forced to talk about the subject; instead, he recalled the day he did it in his new book, “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise,” written by Isabel Vincent.
RFK Jr. has a history of bizarre behaviors and decisions, leaving many scratching their heads earlier this year when he looked to deregulate "miracle drugs" popularised on social media, despite warning from health bodies.
He has also previously revealed that he meditates "with dead people" as part of his fitness regime, as members of the public wonder if the 72-year-old was Donald Trump's most controversial appointment.
Separate from his government role, RFK Jr. has now given people an insight into his outlandish mind.
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It's something that would make you look differently at any regular Joe, but the nation's top civilian health official seems to be an eager animal genitalia researcher.
RFK Jr. actually pulled his family vehicle to the side of the road after he spotted a dead raccoon, before getting out of the car to cut off its sex organs and "study them later."
Author Vincent wrote the book after drawing upon a number of sources, such as private journals that the official kept while living in New York City between 1999 and 2001.
While many may be ashamed of chopping up an animal carcass, RFK Jr. had admitted: "I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be."
The unbelievable passage was somehow linked to his complicated relationships with brother Douglas Kennedy and cousin Bobby Shriver.
He noted that his kids "waited patiently in the car" while he fetched the raccoon penis, as he admitted to People that he collected its parts to "study them later."
But this isn't RFK Jr.'s first encounter with animal parts.
The Health Secretary's daughter, Kick Kennedy, said in a 2012 interview with Town & Country magazine that her dad once ruined a family vacation to Massachusetts.
Apparently, after he had learned that a whale carcass had washed ashore on nearby Squaw Island, on a visit to Hyannis Port, RFK Jr. made the decision to head to the beach and decapitate the sea creature with a chainsaw.
He then proceeded to strap the whale's head to the roof of the family minivan with a bungee cord, with the intention to take it home and study, though it left his kids disgusted.
She recalled: “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,
“We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”
RFK Jr. had previously admitted that he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park after he failed to successfully skin it.
He admitted in a video that he and some friends tried to "make it look like he got hit by a bike," after a few drinks.
