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T<\/span>he wife of Florida surgeon general Dr Joseph Ladapo, a leading vaccine skeptic, believes that angels have spoken to her and that \u201cdark forces\u201d are targeting her family with chemtrails, and has claimed her husband won\u2019t work with anyone she hasn\u2019t vetted.<\/p>\n In published works and interviews reviewed by the Guardian, Brianna Ladapo \u2013 who edited her husband\u2019s USA Today op-ed from March 2020 against Covid-19 shutdowns and appears alongside him at conferences \u2013 claims to have regularly received visions that come true and believes her life has been saved \u201cmultiple times\u201d by angels.<\/p>\n Joseph Ladapo, a longtime vaccine skeptic who was handpicked by Florida\u2019s governor, Ron DeSantis, has faced accusations by public health advocates of peddling \u201cscientific nonsense\u201d. Ladapo has defended his stances on vaccines and Covid guidance, stating in 2023 in response to allegations he falsified a Covid report: \u201cBetween my scientific experience and training, and the fact that I am only comfortable saying the truth and speaking the truth, I felt completely fine with that announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n He recently ended vaccine mandates for children in Florida against preventable diseases, including measles, mumps, chickenpox, polio and hepatitis, comparing mandates to \u201cslavery\u201d and claimed the move would receive the blessing \u201cof God\u201d. Florida is the first state in the US to do so.<\/p>\n The Guardian made several attempts to reach Brianna Ladapo and Joseph Ladapo by email. They did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The Florida department of health and DeSantis also did not respond to multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n In a Substack post on 5 September, Brianna Ladapo defended her husband\u2019s decision to end vaccine mandates and claimed there are \u201cdubious origins, nonexistent safety profiles, and dirty money trails surrounding vaccines\u201d.<\/p>\n She wrote in the post: \u201cYou believe in vaccines because you\u2019ve been told to by a corrupt medical establishment that has a vested interest in keeping you subservient and stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n In a July 2025 podcast, Brianna Ladapo stated: \u201cI often think if I hadn\u2019t had to learn to trust my own gut and learn how to think and stand on my own two feet at such a young age, when Covid had come through, apparently swept away everyone\u2019s brains, I might have been swept away right along with it if I didn\u2019t already know how to listen to that truth that I believe is inside every single one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n She added in the podcast that \u201ceven to the lead-up, I was having visions, I was having dreams\u201d, about the pandemic, before it began in early 2020. \u201cImmediately, ridiculous inconsistencies started to show themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n She also appeared in an interview with the prominent anti-vaccine group Children\u2019s Health Defense in January 2025, in which she said: \u201cIf we all listen to our intuition, we listen to that voice, we would not fall for propaganda. Like, what\u2019s happened with Covid. People did truly insane things to keep from catching a virus that over, well over 99% of people survived without intervention, right? That\u2019s textbook insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n Joseph Ladapo has appeared with his wife on stage at conferences on health and parenting.<\/p>\n In Dr Ladapo\u2019s 2022 memoir, Transcend Fear, he wrote that his wife has \u201ca history of extraordinary experiences that were hard to explain with natural laws\u201d. In March 2020, he wrote an op-ed for USA Today against shutdowns in response to Covid-19, the first of several he wrote about the virus, and noted that it was edited by his wife.<\/p>\n Joseph Ladapo wrote in Transcend Fear that when he was recruited for the job of Florida surgeon general by DeSantis, his wife claimed it was the message she was waiting for.<\/p>\n In Brianna Ladapo\u2019s 2023 memoir, she claimed \u201cas long as I can remember, I have received communications from beings beyond this realm. Even as a young child, angels regularly spoke to me.\u201d<\/p>\n She added that \u201csince I was born, I have also received constant communications in the form of visions\u201d and that \u201ceventually, every single one of them came to pass\u201d.<\/p>\n In the book, Brianna Ladapo claims she went on a \u201cpilgrimage\u201d trip to Egypt in graduate school during which she saw the rest of a \u201crecurring vision\u201d from a past life.<\/p>\n In a video podcast on Rumble earlier this year, she reiterated these claims about her \u201cgifts\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI was born a very sensitive child, the kind of kid who would see angels and talk to beings that no one else could necessarily perceive,\u201d she said, claiming her family \u201cperceived what was happening to me as satanic and demonic and evil\u201d.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Sign up to This Week in Trumpland<\/span><\/p>\n A deep dive into the policies, controversies and oddities surrounding the Trump administration<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.<\/span><\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n \u201cI saw a lot of angels, but my angels would talk to me and they saved my life multiple times,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n Brianna Ladapo also claimed their children together \u201chave all been having experiences like this since they were born\u201d and have \u201cinnate divine intelligence\u201d.<\/p>\n She claimed one of her children as a baby had \u201ca gift\u201d that was temporarily shared with her.<\/p>\n \u201cI started to hear conversations that sounded like they were right next to me. There were no people anywhere near us. And they were clearly from different eras, sometimes different countries, different languages and dialects,\u201d Ladapo said.<\/p>\n She said initially in their relationship, her husband was skeptical, but came to believe in her \u201cgifts\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter a number of years, he came to deeply trust my gift and now he won\u2019t work with anybody I haven\u2019t vetted,\u201d she said. The couple did not respond to requests for comment about Brianna Ladapo\u2019s vetting.<\/p>\n Later in the podcast, Ladapo claimed she floated an inch above the ground during a session with a former Navy Seal and self-proclaimed traditional healing guru, whom she said her husband had also seen and had similar experiences with. The healer declined to comment, citing client confidentiality.<\/p>\n Ladapo is also a proponent of the chemtrails conspiracy theory about planes mass-dumping chemicals. She claims in the podcast interview that she and her children got sick because of chemtrails, and she used a patch that has been characterized as pseudoscience by medical experts.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we try to chase down where this is coming from, who is funding the companies who are flying the planes, who are piloting these planes, where are they taking off? We don\u2019t even know where they are, because none of this is on the books.\u201d Ladapo said about chemtrails.<\/p>\n She added in the podcast interview about a photo of a Florida sky outside of her home: \u201cThis is how the chemtrails have been looking outside our window for the past few weeks. They are, I hate to say it, but that looks like a pentagram and they\u2019ve been plastering it in the sky right outside our house for the last few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n She characterized the perceived chemtrailers as \u201cdark forces\u201d out to get her and her husband.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve been trying to stop us for years,\u201d she claimed. \u201cWe are operating at a level of light that puts us essentially out of the grasp of those with a very low vibration, very evil intention.\u201d<\/p>\n