RFK Jr.’s Daughter Kick said he once beheaded a whale with a chainsaw – Hollywood Life

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Whale, whale, whale, looks like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has got a pattern.

Kick Kennedy, the daughter of RFK Jr., regaled Town & Country with a tale of a whale in a 2012 cover story that has resurfaced amid rumors of a potential romance with recently divorced Ben Affleck.

In the interview, which covered a range of topics from her travels and budding acting career to her family legacy, Kennedy, 36, shared an anecdote about a childhood trip to Hyannis Port, Mass., where her father’s at-times-bizarre fascination with dead animals was on full display through a gruesome story of him beheading a whale.

Kick recalled that the day began when her dad, now 70, heard that a dead whale had washed up on the shores of Massachusetts’ Squaw Island. Bobby, who is passionate about studying animal bones and skulls, ran to the beach with his chainsaw. He then drove the family five hours to Mount Kisco, N.Y. with the whale’s skull fastened to the roof. “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.” The bear was in good condition, and I planned to put the meat in my refrigerator,” he said. It was in very good condition, and I planned to put the meat in my refrigerator,” he said.

However, he claimed he didn’t have time to stop at home between the hawking trip, a dinner that ran late, and one last destination at the airport.

So, while at Peter Luger Steak House with friends, they 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.”

“So we went and did that, and we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it, or something.”