Olivia Nuzzi Opens Up About RFK Jr. Sexting Scandal, Reflects On Ethics And Shame

Political journalist 📰Olivia Nuzzi spoke candidly about her alleged intimate relationship with 👤Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during the 2024 election cycle, admitting she made a serious mistake.

According to Fox News, Nuzzi told The Bulwark’s Tim Miller in an interview, “I had f—ed up. I did something wrong. Those ethics rules exist for a reason. They’re very good rules, and I had violated that.”

Nuzzi, who is promoting her new book American Canto, discussed the role of shame in her life and career, emphasizing that she resisted pressure from others to be “shameless” after the story emerged last year.

“There were a lot of people telling me, ‘Oh, just keep going. Cover the end of the election and take some other assignment. Be shameless because everyone else involved is shameless, and you should be shameless too.’ I think shame is very important,” she said.

She reflected on how the relationship came to happen, describing it as the result of “many imperceptible errors that contributed to really just a malformed perspective that led to that type of mistake.”

“It struck me… it had to have been many imperceptible errors… And I took it really seriously,” Nuzzi continued. “At first, it’s like an intoxicating thought, you know, like, oh, could I just do that? And then immediately, it’s just, ‘No. Of course, I can’t do that and live with myself.’”

Nuzzi said she had initially