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: 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.
This is what that post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/NicoleSirotek.)
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.
Here's an example of a supportive reader, urging Sirotek (archived here) to bolster the anecdote with facts:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of comments at instagram account @nicolesirotek.)
Sirotek responded:
I would love to talk to the news about this situation and what is going on in hospitals. Remember I was the one who told everyone about what was going on in the hospitals in 2020. I was also the one who warned everyone about remdesivir and the Covid shot killing kids before the doctors finally caught on. I would love to go on @joerogan and let him know considering he's had every doctor in but won't get back to me. Or how about @jordan.b.peterson who has also spoke with the doctors but not the nurses? I had a scheduled phone call with him when he was on a book tour in Brussels which he missed. Or how about @tuckercarlson and his @tuckercarlsonnetwork? I've reached out to him and his network as well. Once again, he has spoken to the doctors but not the nurses. 'm down to talk to anyone that will listen, they just don't want to listen to me because I'm "just a nurse"
In subsequent comments, other readers of her Instagram post encouraged more transparency:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of comment at instagram.com/nicolesirotek.)
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:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of comments at Instagram post by @nicolesirotek.)
Lead Stories will update this fact check if she responds with details that can be used to verify her anecdote through independent sources of information.
