Apparently, Meghan McCain and her dad John McCain got in a huge fight after he decided to fly from Arizona back to D.C. to vote on the Republicans’ attempt to repeal Obamacare — days after he had surgery to remove a blood clot from his eye and was diagnosed with brain cancer.

In the new HBO documentary, John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Meghan said: “He said, ‘I have to get back for the healthcare bill’ and I said, ‘What could possibly happen if he gets on a plane?’ and the doctor said he would like hemorrhage and it can be dangerous if he still has air in his brain, and all this crazy stuff.”

“So I freaked out and I screamed at everyone that he couldn’t get on the plane and that I didn’t agree with it,” she continues. “And my dad snapped at me and said, ‘It’s my life and it’s my choice.”’ He would make the trip and decide to vote NO on repealing the Affordable Care Act.

“I will not vote for this bill as it is today,” he forcefully told his senate colleagues, many of whom reacted with stunned silence and a few audible gasps, as seen in the documentary’s archival footage.

“I think the Republicans felt that he had marshaled all of his physical strength to come back after the surgery and that naturally he would vote with the Republican party,” former Democratic senator and close McCain pal Joe Lieberman tells the filmmakers. “But they totally misread John. He came back for a different reason. He came back to do the right thing and to send a message to his colleagues and to the country.”

H/T: People