Tatiana Schlossberg goes scorched earth on cousin RFK Jr in terminal cancer announcement
President John F. Kennedy’s grandson publicly torched his cousin Robert F. Kennedy in an article that exposed his secret deadly cancer battle.
Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, said she watched in horror from her hospital bed as RFK Jr was appointed to the medical position in February.
He said the healthcare system he trusted suddenly felt “nervous and shaky” after RFK Jr’s confirmation. He was worried about losing access to leukemia and bone marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering, his best chance for recovery.
Writing on the 62nd anniversary of the JFK assassination, Schlossberg revealed in May 2024 that he had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a type of blood cancer.
In her article in the New Yorker, she explained that she had no symptoms and that doctors were only able to detect it with routine blood tests after she gave birth to her second child.
In the same article, he launched a scathing attack on his second cousin, RFK Jr., upon his appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Schlossberg wrote that RFK Jr was ‘mostly an embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family’ as he received CAR-T therapy, a treatment developed through decades of government-funded research.
He said he watched from his hospital bed as he was appointed to the top healthcare position ‘against logic and common sense’, despite having never worked in medicine, public health or government.
John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, has revealed that she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer (Image: Tatiana pictured with her mother Caroline Kennedy, who served as US Ambassador to Australia under President Joe Biden from 2022 to 2024 and previously served as Ambassador to Japan under Barack Obama)
In the same article, Schlossberg launched a scathing attack on his second cousin, RFK Jr, over his appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Pictured: President John Kennedy and his wife Jackie with their children John Jr and Caroline in Palm Beach, Florida on April 14, 1963
His criticism came after RFK Jr. suspended his presidential campaign in August 2024 and supported Donald Trump, who promised to let Bobby ‘run wild’ on health care.
Schlossberg said his mother had written to the Senate to block his confirmation, and his brother had also been speaking out against her “lies” for months.
Schlossberg said the health care system he relied on suddenly felt “nervous and shaky” after RFK Jr.’s confirmation.
He accused her of cutting billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health, canceling hundreds of grants and clinical trials, and cutting nearly half a billion dollars for mRNA vaccine research that she said could be used against certain cancers.
He worried about losing access to leukemia and bone marrow research as a result.
He also condemned RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine stance and cited his claim that ‘There is no safe and effective vaccine.’
Schlossberg compared this to his father’s memory of the polio vaccine, which he said “felt like freedom.”
As an immunocompromised patient, she feared she would never be able to get vaccinated again, leaving her vulnerable ‘along with millions of cancer survivors, young children and the elderly’.
The 35-year-old, who is the sister of Kennedy political leader Jack Schlossberg (seen with), said she received the diagnosis after a doctor noticed an imbalance in her white blood cell count after giving birth last year.
Inversion 3 acute myeloid leukemia, which Schlossberg was diagnosed with, is a rare and aggressive type of cancer that is often difficult to detect.
Schlossberg said she was stunned when she learned that the drug misoprostol, which saved her life during postpartum hemorrhage, was “under review” by the FDA, at RFK Jr.’s insistence, because it was used in medication abortions.
‘I wonder what would have happened if it had not been made immediately available to me and the millions of other women who need it to save their lives,’ she wrote.
He also condemned RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine stance and cited his claim that ‘There is no safe and effective vaccine.’
Schlossberg compared this to his father’s memories of the polio vaccine, which he said “felt like freedom.”
As an immunocompromised patient, she feared she would never be able to get vaccinated again, leaving her vulnerable ‘along with millions of cancer survivors, young children and the elderly’.
Schlossberg said he was stunned when he learned that the drug misoprostol, which saved his life during postpartum hemorrhage, was “under review” by the FDA, at RFK Jr’s insistence, because it was used in medication abortions.
‘I wonder what would have happened if it had not been made immediately available to me and the millions of other women who need it to save their lives,’ she wrote.
The article closed on a personal note. Schlossberg said his illness derailed his plans to write a book about the oceans, reflecting the irony that one of the chemotherapy drugs, cytarabine, was derived from a Caribbean sponge and was discovered through government-funded research — the very funding RFK Jr. cut.
‘I remind my son that I’m a writer,’ she wrote, ‘so he knows I’m not just a sick person.’
The Daily Mail has reached out to RFK Jr’s team for comment.
