Lyme Disease Conspiracies: Government bioweapon, celebrity excuse, or chronic illness that needs more attention?

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Why do all of these rumors exist around Lyme disease? Some people swear it’s a secret government bioweapon that escaped from a lab. Others think celebrities drop it as a convenient excuse when they’re out of the spotlight. In this episode, I’m digging into all of it - wild conspiracy theories, the celebrity connections, and the very real stories from people dealing with Lyme. Whether you’ve heard the rumors or just want to know what’s true and what’s hype, this one’s going to be a ride. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.squarespace.com/fluently⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code FLUENTLY Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quince.com/fluently⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365 -day returns.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Fluently Ford. Today, we are talking about Lyme
0:07.0	disease, and you might be thinking to yourself, Shannon, Fluently Ford is a pop culture and sometimes
0:13.0	conspiracy podcast. Well, exactly. The thing about Lyme disease is it somehow covers both conspiracy and pop culture. It is now something that a good
0:25.3	number, a good percentage of celebrities have spoken out and said, hey, I have Lyme disease or I have
0:32.5	chronic Lyme. We'll be talking about both of those and how they're similar and yet different in the
0:37.3	episode.
0:38.3	Recently and notably, Justin Timberlake is the newest celebrity to come out and say that he suffers with Lyme disease.
0:45.7	But we also have a huge conspiracy theory around Lyme disease.
0:50.9	Nobody is denying that it exists, but a certain amount of people online are saying
0:55.7	perhaps it was created by the government to be a bioweapon. So we are going to get into all sides of this.
1:03.5	We're going to hear from everybody on all angles. Yolanda Hadid might be calling in later. And we are
1:09.0	going to cover it for today because there's so much to
1:11.2	do with Lyme disease. So obviously, just to kick things off, we've heard of a lot of celebrities
1:17.2	over the years, whether it's the Hadid's or Justin Bieber or Afro-Levin, Justin Timberlake,
1:22.2	coming out and saying that they suffer and struggle with Lyme disease. And they do so in a chronic sense. There are also some people who say that they suffer and struggle with Lyme disease, and they do so in a chronic sense.
1:29.6	There are also some people who say that they have chronic Lyme, which is a type of chronic
1:34.9	condition that you can have that isn't exactly caused by a tick bite.
1:39.1	We're going to go into the differences of this and why some people think that celebrities
1:43.2	may have Lyme disease or they may be using
1:45.9	it as a little bit of a blanket excuse for when maybe they go to rehab for drugs or maybe they
1:53.2	don't perform super well at their world tour or maybe they have a DUI or they go through a bad
1:59.5	public breakup or they just don't want to show up
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