It’s all over for the whale.
Kick Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and apparently new friend of the recently divorced Ben Affleck, told Town & Country a truly astonishing anecdote in a 2012 cover story that recently resurfaced after the Camelot scion announced he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.
During a wide-ranging interview with the then-24-year-old Kennedy about her travels, her budding acting career and her family heritage, she shared a strange anecdote about a childhood trip to Hyannisport, Massachusetts, where her father’s sometimes bizarre interest in dead animals was on full display.
When her father found out a dead whale had washed up on the shores of Squaw Island, he ran down to the shoreline with a chainsaw, decapitated the whale on the spot, and tied the head with a bungee cord to the family’s minivan so that it could be examined later at home.
The family then endured a five-hour drive to Mount Kisco, New York, during which RFK’s fetid prey relentlessly assaulted every sense of the body, as his son Kennedy recalls in excruciating, nauseating detail.
“Every time I accelerated on the highway, whale fluid would pour out onto the car window and it was the most disgusting thing on earth,” she told the magazine.
“We all had plastic bags over our heads with holes in them. People on the highway were giving us the middle finger and it was a normal thing for us.”
The article doesn’t say whether RFK was able to successfully extract the mammal’s skull after bringing it home, but it certainly couldn’t have gone any worse than when he tried to rescue a bear cub about two years later.
Kennedy made headlines earlier this month when he admitted to abandoning a bear cub in Central Park after unsuccessfully trying to skin it 10 years ago when the cub died at the age of 70.
During the much-talked-about interview with Roseanne Barr, Kennedy claimed that during a falconry trip in Goshen, New York, he discovered a dead cub after a woman driving in front of him struck it with her car.
“So I pulled over, picked up the bear and put it in the back of my van. My intention was to skin the bear, it was in pretty good condition, and I was going to put the meat in the fridge,” he recalled.
Later in the interview, he said some of his buddies had been drinking and thought it would be a good idea to dump the dead bear in the park and “make it look like it got hit by a bike.”
A Hollywood source told Page Six this week that Kik, 36, has recently been spotted hanging out with the recently divorced Affleck, 52, at popular spots like the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, but it’s not clear yet what the nature of their relationship is.
