Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Dead Brain Worm” stars in Piers Morgan interview

The surreal saga of Robert F. Kennedy’s brain worm was once again in the spotlight on Thursday when Piers Morgan asked the independent presidential candidate about his now infamous parasite.

“You’re upsetting everyone with this extraordinary revelation about the worm in your brain,” Morgan said. “Did you expect the reaction you got, and what are the lasting consequences of this health problem you’ve had?”

“So, Piers, first of all, do you believe I announced this to the world?” asked Kennedy. Morgan replied that he did not believe Kennedy had done so “explicitly.”

“No, I did not,” said Kennedy. “It was a brief discussion in a deposition almost 15 years ago during my divorce, and The New York Times “I dug this up and, you know, made it – announced it like it was breaking news.”

“That was something I discovered,” Kennedy continued. “It’s interesting. It didn’t affect my cognitive abilities. I was having problems at the time – I was foggy and had problems with memory and word recall that I noticed but no one else did.”

The Just A May report said Kennedy’s “memory loss and mental confusion” had become “so severe in 2010 that a friend feared he might have a brain tumor.” After finding a dark spot on his brain scans, doctors concluded he had a tumor, the report said, and Kennedy was scheduled to undergo surgery before another doctor reached a different conclusion: that he had a “dead parasite in his head.”

In his interview with Morgan, Kennedy said that his symptoms were eventually treated and that the worm “was one of the things that they discovered in the course of my treatment, but it was nothing that, you know, posed any kind of threat to me.”

He further claimed that after the publication of the Just piece, “that a billion people in the world have this particular parasite,” which elicited an incredulous “Really?!” from Morgan.

Perhaps just as surprising was that Kennedy was later given two places by doctors where he might have caught the worm: one was India, where he had “traveled a lot,” and the other was “in the hog industry.”

“I’ve sued factory farms in North Carolina, Utah and all over the country,” Kennedy said. “And apparently this parasite is very, very common among people who work in this industry. So I don’t know where it came from, but whatever it was, the parasite in my brain died on its own, thank God.”

“So, to reassure potential voters,” Morgan replied, “is there no worm left in your brain?” Kennedy laughed and replied, “Yes, thank you very much, Piers.”