(NewsNation) — Scandal-embroiled journalist Olivia Nuzzi‘s tell-all book is illuminating details of an alleged affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., referred to solely as “The Politician” on paper.

Nuzzi, formerly a star political reporter, was fired from New York Magazine last year after rumors of a digital romance with Kennedy surfaced. She’d previously profiled him as a presidential candidate in 2023.

Her new book, “American Canto,” takes a deeper dive into their alleged relationship, how it derailed her career, and the acrimony between Nuzzi and her former fiancé, Ryan Lizza, also a political reporter.

RFK Jr. wanted to get Nuzzi pregnant, new book alleges

Kennedy, now the Secretary of Health and Human Services, allegedly told Nuzzi he wanted to get her pregnant and consistently professed his love for her.

The Kennedy scion allegedly told her, “I need everything from you, Livvy,” which she called “sweet” and “earnest.”

“‘Everything is yours,’ I said. I always said that. He told me that he wanted to have his baby. This seemed earnest, too,” Nuzzi wrote.

Nuzzi also said they exchanged poetry, shared stories about their childhoods and the trust they had in each other, despite their alleged affair’s career-rocking effects for her.

Kennedy reportedly told her in a phone call that he could not see how their relationship — one married, another engaged, subject and reporter — could have repercussions.

“You didn’t do anything wrong,” she claims he said. “If we got married, it still wouldn’t be wrong. My aunt married my uncle after she interviewed him.”

Nuzzi offered RFK Jr. advice for presidential run

Nuzzi also describes several times she offered Kennedy her opinion and advice during his failed presidential bid.

One of Kennedy’s more bizarre admissions — that he’d left a dead bear cub in New York’s Central Park in 2014, sparking an investigation — was allegedly spurred by Nuzzi’s advice.

“I guess, if I were you, I would get ahead of the story,” she said, and he did.

She also writes about his alleged brainstorming about whether to abandon his campaign with running mate Nicole Shanahan.

Nuzzi said she asked him to think about whether he’d rather endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, and whether he could negotiate a position of influence in Trump’s administration following an endorsement.

Their discussion, Nuzzi wrote, ended with “The Politician” crying and concluding, “I wish I could just be with you.”

RFK Jr. used drugs, Nuzzi claims in new book

Nuzzi also claimed Kennedy — who has long been vocal about his previous substance abuse issues and years of sobriety — would smoke the hallucinogenic drug DMT without his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, knowing about it.

“The Politician” allegedly described DMT as a “classic psychedelic experience,” and was known to have done another drug “that sometimes interfered with his ability to perform the work of campaigning for office.”

“When I raised the subject, he denied it,” Nuzzi wrote.

Nuzzi’s ex, former Politico journalist Lizza, made similar claims in a Substack post on Monday.

“Kennedy’s aides believed he was using drugs again, and Kennedy confessed to Olivia that he was using ketamine,” Lizza wrote.

Nuzzi says she felt betrayed by RFK Jr.

When their alleged affair hit the news, Nuzzi said Kennedy called her and said, “I need you to take a bullet for me.” 

She wrote about feeling as though Kennedy — “the man I trusted most” — had betrayed their trust.

“When he saw me there, a mob on the horizon moving closer, he reached out to me, not to lift me to my feet but to pin me down, to drive the teeth of the trap deeper into my flesh, to hike my skirt higher, to wave the mob over to look, to invite the country to lay its hands on me,” she writes.

She said he later apologized, but did it through someone else entirely, on the phone.

RFK Jr. didn’t have a ‘brain worm’: Nuzzi

In “American Canto,” Nuzzi said Kennedy dismissed one of his own talking points in confidence: Whether he had a “brain worm.”

The so-called “Politician” assured Nuzzi that he did not actually have a creepy-crawly in his skull cavity.

“I loved his brain,” she wrote. “I hated the idea of an intruder therein.”

He allegedly told her, “Baby, don’t worry. It’s not a worm,” clarifying that the figure pictured in a scan of his brain was not a parasite.

Nuzzi claims RFK Jr. felt it was too late to “interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend,” and added that “at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.”

NewsNation’s Paula Froelich and Teddy Grant contributed to this report.