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He also drove his ex-wife into depression, who later committed suicide.

The brain worm thing, as much as people think it's a funny stupid little story, was a lie he told to avoid paying any alimony when he divorced her.

Nah my guess is that it was probably real, obtained from eating undercooked game

Yeah IIRC it was diagnosed from a brain scan, which would make it easily fact-checked during discovery in a contentious divorce.