The spouse of Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a renowned vaccine skeptic, asserts that she has received messages from angels and believes “dark forces” are targeting her family using chemtrails. She also claims her husband refrains from working with anyone not approved by her.

According to the Guardian’s review of interviews and publications, Brianna Ladapo, who edited her husband’s USA Today article opposing Covid-19 shutdowns in March 2020 and appears with him at conferences, frequently claims to receive prophetic visions and attributes life’s multiple rescues to angels.

Joseph Ladapo, chosen by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, is a longtime vaccine skeptic who has been criticized by public health experts for promoting “scientific nonsense.” In 2023, responding to accusations of falsifying a Covid report, Ladapo stated his scientific background and dedication to honesty left him confident about his announcement.

He recently eliminated vaccine requirements for diseases like measles, mumps, chickenpox, polio, and hepatitis in Florida, likening these mandates to “slavery” and asserting the change would be blessed “by God.” Florida stands alone in the US for taking such action.

The Guardian attempted to contact Brianna and Joseph Ladapo via email several times without a response. No comments were received from the Florida department of health or DeSantis either.

In a September 5 Substack post, Brianna Ladapo supported her husband’s decision to end vaccine mandates, claiming they have “questionable origins, nonexistent safety profiles, and involving corrupt financial incentives.”

She wrote in the post: “You believe in vaccines because you’ve been told to by a corrupt medical establishment that has a vested interest in keeping you subservient and stupid.”

In a July 2025 podcast, Brianna Ladapo stated: “I often think if I hadn’t 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’s brains, I might have been swept away right along with it if I didn’t already know how to listen to that truth that I believe is inside every single one of us.”

She added in the podcast that “even to the lead-up, I was having visions, I was having dreams”, about the pandemic, before it began in early 2020. “Immediately, ridiculous inconsistencies started to show themselves.”

She also appeared in an interview with the prominent anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense in January 2025, in which she said: “If we all listen to our intuition, we listen to that voice, we would not fall for propaganda. Like, what’s 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’s textbook insanity.”

Joseph Ladapo has appeared with his wife on stage at conferences on health and parenting.

In Dr Ladapo’s 2022 memoir, Transcend Fear, he wrote that his wife has “a history of extraordinary experiences that were hard to explain with natural laws”. 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.

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.

In Brianna Ladapo’s 2023 memoir, she claimed “as long as I can remember, I have received communications from beings beyond this realm. Even as a young child, angels regularly spoke to me.”

She added that “since I was born, I have also received constant communications in the form of visions” and that “eventually, every single one of them came to pass”.

In the book, Brianna Ladapo claims she went on a “pilgrimage” trip to Egypt in graduate school during which she saw the rest of a “recurring vision” from a past life.

In a video podcast on Rumble earlier this year, she reiterated these claims about her “gifts”.

“I 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,” she said, claiming her family “perceived what was happening to me as satanic and demonic and evil”.

“I saw a lot of angels, but my angels would talk to me and they saved my life multiple times,” she claimed.

Brianna Ladapo also claimed their children together “have all been having experiences like this since they were born” and have “innate divine intelligence”.

She claimed one of her children as a baby had “a gift” that was temporarily shared with her.

“I 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,” Ladapo said.

She said initially in their relationship, her husband was skeptical, but came to believe in her “gifts”.

“After a number of years, he came to deeply trust my gift and now he won’t work with anybody I haven’t vetted,” she said. The couple did not respond to requests for comment about Brianna Ladapo’s vetting.

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.

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.

“As 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’t even know where they are, because none of this is on the books.” Ladapo said about chemtrails.

She added in the podcast interview about a photo of a Florida sky outside of her home: “This 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’ve been plastering it in the sky right outside our house for the last few weeks.”

She characterized the perceived chemtrailers as “dark forces” out to get her and her husband.

“They’ve been trying to stop us for years,” she claimed. “We 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.”