(NewsNation) — Jenny McCarthy says celebrities “secretly support” Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again policies.
The “Python” actress made the comments on the “Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark” podcast.
When the host Alex Clark asked her, “What sentiments do you hear from Hollywood about MAHA? Are they secretly very supportive of the MAHA movement?” McCarthy responded that Hollywood is “secretly very supportive.”
“I’ve been mentoring mothers online who DM me still, but also celebrities that have called me and said, ‘I don’t want to come out. I don’t want people to know I have a child on the spectrum. I don’t want people to know my f——- schedule. Can you help me?’” she said.
The “Masked Singer” judge said that she’s had a close relationship with Kennedy since her son, Evan, was 2 years old.
Kennedy has long been a skeptic of vaccines and has made a disproven claim at a meeting with governors across the country in Colorado Springs in July that aluminum in vaccines causes food allergies.
Earlier this month, RFK. Jr’s handpicked vaccine committee voted to end a decades-long recommendation that all U.S. babies be given the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
Jenny McCarthy denies anti-vax label
The “Less than Perfect” actress has long questioned the efficacy of vaccines after her son was diagnosed with autism, telling People in 2009 that his demeanor changed after he received the MMR shot when he was 14 months old.
“Vaccinations are safe — dot, dot, dot — for some kids. Vaccinations are not safe — dot, dot, dot — for other kids. Let’s protect the ones who are weak. We are pro–safe vaccine,” she told Cookie magazine in 2009.
McCarthy told Clark that the backlash she received over her comments about vaccines over the years is why celebrities don’t want to publicly share their views on RFK Jr.’s MAHA agenda.
“And I honor that, because they saw what happened to me,” the “Two and a Half Men” actress said on the podcast. “Who in their right mind, after everything that I’ve kind of [been through] would be like, ‘You know, I want to be that next person that gets bullied for so many years.’
“There’s more conservatives than you would know hiding out in Hollywood.”
Scientists see no link between autism and vaccines
Members of the scientific community, who have spent years studying what causes autism, have long stated that vaccines do not cause autism.
However, recent changes in governmental policy have included a move by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to say “the statement ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim.”
“We are appalled to find that the content on the CDC webpage ‘Autism and Vaccines’ has been changed and distorted, and is now filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism,” the Autism Science Foundation told the Associated Press in a statement in November.
