Did Nicole Sirotek get a 4 a.m. call from the husband of a pregnant woman dying of liver failure after she took a large dose of Tylenol to disprove President Donald Trump's declaration that acetaminophen causes autism? Here's what we know
By: Dean Miller
Sirotek, who Lead Stories has previously fact-checked for COVID misinformation, posted the anecdote on social media September 24, 2025, without including details. Sirotek had not responded to multiple requests for information to verify the story as of September 26, 2025. We do not know a place, date, hospital, patient name or doctor's name to corroborate what Sirotek wrote.
Sirotek has told the story on several social media accounts, including an X post September 24, 2025 (
archived here) on the @
nicoleSirotek account. The first thread in the series reads:
Got a frantic call at 4am from a husband who was given my phone number via someone who had it. His pregnant wife is now on a ventilator dying of liver failure trying to "prove" that Tylenol doesn't cause autism since this is trending in TikTok.
The thread continues:
He know has to make to make the tough decision to try and save an unborn baby that may not survive outside the womb at an approx gestation of 23-25wks. At the same time his wife won't survive through the week and will never get to meet her baby
He know has to make to make the tough decision to try and save an unborn baby that may not survive outside the womb at an approx gestation of 23-25wks. At the same time his wife won't survive through the week and will never get to meet her baby
This behavior is ridiculous. This woman hated Trump so much because of the HARVARD STUDY on Tylenol and Autism she ultimately killed herself by overdosing on Tylenol to try and "prove Trump wrong." Her baby may not even survive either
Lead Stories is one of several social media users to have asked Sirotek on several platforms to provide enough detail, or family contacts or hospital contacts, to permit independent verification.
Sirotek is a Nevada nurse active in spreading misinformation about public health measures. In 2023, Lead Stories fact checked an Instagram video in which Sirotek, a Nevada nurse, falsely claimed Remdesivir, an anti-viral drug used to treat COVID, was killing people.
Identifying ourselves as journalists working in response to a Community Note request on X, Lead Stories reached out September 25, 2025 to Sirotek through the contact address at her America's Frontline Nurses organization, of which she is the founder. A day later, she had not responded to that request.
Lead Stories also reached out directly via the contact information on her webpage, Nicolesirotek.com. A day later, she had not responded to our request.
In comments below the Instagram version of her anecdote, (archived here) Lead Stories posted a comment on September 26, explaining our efforts to reach her for comment and to gather more information. At the time of writing this fact check, she had not responded to that request, either. Other users on Instagram raised the same questions, asking her to specify and to report on the condition of the baby