RFK Jr.’s Daughter Said He Once Beheaded a Whale with a Chainsaw. A Ben Affleck Dating Rumor Unearthed the Story

Mar. 15, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Kick Kennedy.Photo:John Nacion/Getty; Mike Pont/Getty

John Nacion/Getty; Mike Pont/Getty

Another dead animal story involvingRobert F. Kennedy Jr.resurfaced over the weekend, following an unusual series of events stemming fromBen AffleckandJennifer Lopez’sdivorce news.

In the absence of concrete answers, internet users began hunting for more information on Kick — soon they had dug up and circulated an unrelated 2012 interview withTown & Countrywhere Kick tells a gruesome story of her father beheading a whale.

In the old interview, Kick discussed her memories from the Kennedys' Hyannis Port home, telling the publication about a time when her father, now 70, heard that a dead whale had washed up on the shores of Massachusetts' Squaw Island.

The car ride back to New York wasn’t a pleasant journey for Kick, who was 6 years old at the time.

“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,” she recalled in the interview. “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.”

Kick Kennedy attends a family event in Arlington, Va., on June 6, 2018.Leigh Vogel/Getty

Leigh Vogel/Getty

“I was worried because my prints were all over that bike … Luckily, the story died down after a while," he concluded.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his campaign on Aug. 23, 2024.Rebecca Noble/Getty

Rebecca Noble/Getty

In the same 2012 interview where Kick told the story of her father beheading a beached whale, she joked that her parents would only ever turn their backs on her if she were to become a Republican.

source: people.com