'I loved him': Olivia Nuzzi breaks silence on RFK Jr affair in candid interview

Olivia Nuzzi has finally addressed, in her own words, the scandal that reshaped her life, career and public image. In a new, unusually introspective interview, the political journalist spoke at length about the alleged intimate text relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr during the 2024 campaign cycle — a relationship that led to her exit from New York Magazine, triggered a cascade of personal upheavals and now frames the centre of her new memoir, American Canto. The interview, conducted with Tim Miller , is Nuzzi’s clearest public reckoning with a saga that became a national media fixation. The first half of this report focuses on what she said in that interview. The second half examines the book, the wider allegations that surfaced in its aftermath and how Nuzzi has chosen to tell —