John F. Kennedy Jr. practically killed his first critical girlfriend, 13 years earlier than he crashed the flight that killed him and his spouse Carolyn Bessette, a brand new ebook reveals.
‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Ladies They Destroyed’, by DailyMail.com columnist and writer Maureen Callahan, tells how JFK Jr. had a behavior of placing others at risk.
‘He had a demise want — not just for himself, however the ladies in his life. He had extra near-misses in his teenagers and twenties than the general public knew,’ Callahan writes. ‘Rushing, swimming too far out into the ocean, driving recklessly onto pavements or whereas excessive on pot, snowboarding in white-out circumstances.’
He additionally practically ‘killed’ his first critical girlfriend, Christina Haag, ‘greater than as soon as’, Callahan says.
RFK Jr. and Christina Haag pictured at a New York Metropolis occasion in 1986.
JFK Jr poses topless on the seaside at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, 1979.
In 1986, the pair had been on trip in Jamaica when JFK Jr. insisted they go kayaking within the open sea with out life jackets.
‘Nothing to be afraid of,’ he reportedly instructed Christina.
Nonetheless, the couple quickly ‘discovered themselves helpless’, with sturdy currents pushing them in direction of an enormous boulder. Had it not been for a rogue wave lifting them over it on the final second and to security, they may have died.
After crash-landing on a distant seaside, JFK Jr. ‘went right into a trance’, Callahan writes — including that Christina later recalled that ‘dying, getting that near it, appeared a excessive for him’.
Regardless of her refusal to get again within the kayak — and presents from a gaggle of native fisherman to take them to the mainland the next morning — John once more insisted, saying they might kayak again that night time, Callahan reveals.
However on this return journey the circumstances had been even worse, with the pair quickly discovering themselves ’15ft underwater’.
Years later, Christina was reportedly nonetheless unable to recollect how they’d survived.
