Cheryl Hines Assures View Hosts That Husband RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm Only ‘Ate Just a Little Bit of His Brain and Died’

Actress Cheryl Hines addressed her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “brain worm” on Tuesday as she wrapped up an interview on The View.

Hines joined The View on Tuesday to promote her new memoir, and after a tense exchange with Sunny Hostin about her husband’s role as the head of Health and Human Services, Joy Behar jumped in to ask whether or not he actually has a “brain worm.”

During his run as an independent in the 2024 presidential race, it was revealed that Kennedy claimed that medical scans revealed a “dead parasite” in his brain.

The claim came from a divorce proceeding from Kennedy’s second wife, Mary Richardson, and Kennedy was claiming his earning ability had been diminished due to “cognitive struggles.”

“It was something I discovered. It’s interesting. It had no impact on my cognitive capacity. I did have at that time– I was having brain fog and I was having some memory retrieval issues that I noticed, nobody else noticed, and I ended up getting treated for that, and that was one of the things they discovered in the course of my treatment, but it wasn’t something that was any kind of a threat to me,” Kennedy told Piers Morgan.

Behar attempted to clear up the “brain worm” story on The View.

“Before you go, so that I don’t have to make any jokes about it, does he or does he not have a brain worm?” she asked.

“It ate a little bit of his brain and died, so don’t worry,” Hines joked.

“So it’s a dead brain worm?” Behar asked as her co-host Whoopi Goldberg was shocked by the exchange.

“What died? Wait, what? The brain died? Wait, wait, wait!” Goldberg said.

“It’s a callback to the campaign,” Hines said. “You’ve got to read my book. That was just one tiny headline in a mountain of crazy.”

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