RFK Jr. Took His 6-Year-Old Daughter on a Trip to Behead a Whale

It turns out that going viral for having a worm in your brain and leaving a dead bear in Central Park is not enough to earn you a spot on the ballot for the presidential race. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign is mostly known for some wild anecdotes that have gone viral. On Aug. 24, RFK. Jr. announced the end of his bid for president, officially endorsing former president Donald Trump instead.

That's not the only story making headlines, however. There's also a story his daughter shared a decade ago that's caught the attention of many. In an old interview with Town & Country, Kick Kennedy shared a story of her father bringing home a beheaded whale. It just gets weirder from here.

In the profile from 2012, Kick detailed how her father had heard that a dead whale had washed up on the shore in Hyannis Port, Mass. Of course, RFK Jr. decided that the most reasonable thing to do would be to bring his 6-year-old daughter with him as he hacked off its head with a chainsaw. For further context, the whale was a five-hour drive from the family's home in New York.

“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,” Kick told the outlet, recounting how her dad had mounted the head of the whale on the roof of their minivan with bungee cords. “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.”

So soon after Ben Affleck's divorce from Jennifer Lopez was announced, Kick and Ben were spotted out together, suggesting the pair may be in a relationship, per Page Six. Though the exact remains "unclear," according to the outlet, it's only further fueled headlines as the star couple's divorce is finalized (without a prenup).