Furthermore, those around DePape — a nudist activist from Berkeley who lived out of what Carlson described, not inaccurately, as “a dilapidated Ken-Kesey-style school bus” complete with a gay pride flag and a Black Lives Matter sign — said he struggled with drug addiction and mental illness.
“The people around David DePape believe that he was completely deranged,” Carlson said on his Monday show.
“The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed his ex-girlfriend, who reported that DePape is mentally ill and struggles with drugs. For example, he once thought he was ‘Jesus for a year. He’s never been able to hold a job,’ said the former girlfriend. ‘He has been homeless. This person really does suffer from mental illness, and that is probably why he was there at 2 a.m.’ She described him as a ‘broken child in an adult body with serious mental problems.’ DePape’s neighbors, who would know, said more or less the same thing.”
“There’s something strange about the whole household. The entire household is very, very strange,” a neighbor said. “He is birds of a feather with — akin to them. So, they are just, you know, nudist drug abusers, and that’s who gravitates toward them.”