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Kathy Griffinis looking back on the night her photoshoot with a bloodied replica of former PresidentDonald Trump’s head went public.
In an op-ed forNewsweekpublished Wednesday, Griffin, 62, shared that on the day the image hit the internet, she had dinner plans at her home with a slew of celebrity guests.
“The night of the Trump photo, I happened to have planned a dinner at my house withMelanie Griffith,Rita WilsonandKris Jenner. I’d quite literally had the worst day of my career and the three of them showed up looking a million dollars and I was in my PJs,” she wrote. “It turned out that they were quite wonderful to talk to that night. So much so I wondered: Might it all just stop tonight?”
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She said that her life quickly changed, with most of her career being put on pause.
“I learned that my old friends weren’t coming back,” Griffin continued. “Anderson Coopercalling my photo ‘disgusting’ still hurts because I really adored him.Andy Cohensaying ‘I don’t know her’ after it all went down was, and is, painful, because I really enjoyed my time at Bravo.”
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Prior to the scandal, Griffin was performing several stand-up shows and executive produced her showKathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, which aired on Bravo from 2005 to 2010.
“I think I’m still banned from most of the talk shows, butJimmy KimmelandSeth Meyerswere great, they were the only two that would have me on,” she explained in theNewsweekessay. “Aubrey Plazabrought over a casserole two days after everything blew up. I don’t think I’d even changed my f—ing pajamas. That was very special and meaningful. Those moments really go a long way; it’s another person, another beacon somewhere on the horizon.”
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Griffinreturned to television for the first time in five yearswhen she was cast in season 5 of HBO Max’sSearch Partyas a conspiracy theorist named Liquorice Montague for four episodes. Shortly after filming the part, Griffin underwent surgery for lung cancer treatment.
She also toured in 17 countries and released her own documentary,Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story, which examines the fallout from the Trump photo scandal.
In November 2021, Griffin made an appearance on ABC’sJimmy Kimmel Livetoannounce that she was cancer free.
Last month, Griffin made headlinesfor being suspended from Twitterafter impersonating the company’s new CEOElon Musk.
source: people.com
