House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) offered a rare insight into the Republican campaign to stop his speaker bid in October following the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

"I know what was being said," Scalise told Politico in an interview.

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In 2017, Scalise was injured in a politically motivated shooting at the Republican Congressional Baseball Game practice. He was in critical condition and required significant medical care to get through the ordeal. And this past summer, the majority leader announced he had been diagnosed with a blood cancer called multiple myeloma.

The speaker battle came just weeks after Scalise returned from cancer treatment.

A matter some opponents of his candidacy raised was his health and ability to do the job. "Medical opinions that were being given out were completely false," according to him.

One member accused of spreading false information about Scalise's prognosis and ability was someone from his delegation: Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA). “Yeah, it’s funny. He’ll tell people differently," Scalise said. "In the end, we all, you know, we all make our decisions."

Graves's office did not provide comment to the Washington Examiner.

“You can read through the B.S. And believe me, you know, anybody who thinks that there are secrets in this town, there are not," he cautioned.

He detailed the positive feedback his doctor had given him following his treatment, saying the cancer was almost gone and that he was going to "live a long life." But then, he said, "There’s some, you know, member, unnamed member of Congress, who’s naming somebody that might not even be a doctor saying he’s going to die in six months. That’s how bad it was.”

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After a lengthy speaker election series in October, relatively unknown Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected to the post.

"Mike and I get along great," Scalise said of the new speaker, acknowledging he and McCarthy didn't have the best relationship.