A former follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory has apologised to Anderson Cooper for once thinking that the CNN anchor ate babies.
Australian Jitarth Jadeja told Cooper that he “100%” believed the bonkers idea, which he claimed was prevalent among supporters of the unhinged movement, in a preview clip released Friday of an upcoming CNN investigation into QAnon.
“Did you, at the time, believe that Democrats, high-level Democrats and celebrities were worshipping Satan, drinking the blood of children?” Cooper asked Jadeja, who ditched the movement in 2019 after watching YouTube videos that debunked its premises.
“Anderson, I thought you did that,” Jadeja responded. “And I would like to apologis0e for that right now. So, I apologise for thinking that you ate babies. But, yeah, 100%.”
A surprised Cooper asked Jadeja, who lives in Sydney if he “actually” believed he “was drinking the blood of children.”
“Yes, I did,” replied Jadeja, who said some followers still think Cooper is a robot.
“I at one stage believed that QAnon was part of military intelligence, which is what he says,” Jadeja recalled. “But on top of that, that the people behind him were actually a group of fifth-dimensional, intradimensional, extraterrestrial bipedal bird aliens called blue aliens.”
“I was so far down in this conspiracy black hole that I was essentially picking and choosing whatever narrative that I wanted to believe in,” he added.
Watch the preview clip below.
CNN’s QAnon special airs Saturday at 9pm ET which is 1pm Sunday AEDT.
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