Scandal-scarred reporter Olivia Nuzzi was “elated” after the RFK Jr. affair story broke — not because of the scandal, but because the Kennedy heir finally stopped “ghosting” her, her ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza claimed Wednesday.

The relationship was already on the rocks when the bombshell dropped. Ahead of the story’s break, Kennedy — then closing out his presidential campaign and engaged in talks with the Trump team — went radio silent, leaving Nuzzi panicked and scrambling, according to Lizza.

But once the story went public, everything changed, Lizza said in the fifth installment of a series of stories on the Substack platform about the end of his relationship with Nuzzi, who left New York magazine after her alleged RFK fling.

“According to three people who either spent time with her or

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