After sharing her son's autism diagnosis, Brittany Cartwright is speaking out against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial claims about the disorder.
The Valley star, who shares 4-year-old Cruz with ex Jax Taylor, said that while she was "so grateful that a light is being shined on" the topic in general, she was upset by some of what of what President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary had said about the developmental condition at an April 16 press conference.
"He said that autism destroys families," Brittany said on the April 18 episode of her podcast When Reality Hits. "He listed a bunch of things that kids with autism or people on the spectrum in general do not do. And that really upset me because the autism spectrum is so broad."
In his speech, made in response to a newly published Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that found that autism rates in U.S. kids has risen, RFK Jr. noted that there are autistic children who will "never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, they'll never go out on a date" and "will never use a toilet unassisted."
