Did RFK jr claim heroin made him a class topper? Here's the actual fact
"I was at the bottom of my class. I started doing heroin, and I ...
The old video of Donald Trump's health secretary nominee RFK Jr saying that he became a topper of his class after he started doing heroin has resurfaced and gone viral. It was his appearance on the Shawn Ryan podcast in July when he was running independently for the president. "I was at the bottom of my class. I started doing heroin, and I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still, and I could read and I could concentrate. I could listen to what people were saying," Kennedy Jr said.
It was the same interview where Kennedy explained that he first tried LSD when he was 15, the summer his father Robert F Kennedy Sr was assassinated. After LSD, he tried heroin and cocaine and it was only after 14 years that he became sober. In the interview, however, he was not promoting drugs; he was explaining how drugs hollowed out his life and destroyed his relationships. The only good thing drugs did was to make him a star student, he said. “My mind was so restless and turbulent I could not sit still,” he said.
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