Kathy Griffin Is Seeking A Major Comeback Following Infamous Trump Photo
Kathy Griffin is back, and embarking on a North American tour this summer. She hopes to make audiences laugh, rather than vomit, over the infamous photo she took holding a Trump paper mache head that looked like it was decapitated.
“I’m the same girl I’ve always been — just a hardworking, obnoxious, red-haired comedy girl. The whole time I’ve been consistent in just trying to make you laugh,” she told The Associated Press. “Am I shocking sometimes? For sure. Do I go too far? I hope so. That’s my job.”
After the incident, she received death threats, was denounced by Trump, landed on an Interpol criminal list, and was afraid to leave her home. She said she was under investigation by the Department of Justice for two months. “It shouldn’t happen to an American citizen,” she said.
She added, “If there’s one amendment I’m familiar with it’s the First Amendment. I know it back and forth and it’s how I make my living.” Kathy said many colleagues like Anderson Cooper turned away but one celebrity reached out — Jim Carrey, someone she didn’t know that well. He advised her to find the comedy in her absurd situation.
“It was really meaningful to me that he called,” she said. “Jim’s advice was right on, which is, ‘Lean into this topic and you’ll find the comedy.’ And luckily I found a lot of comedy while hibernating.”
“I figured after this ordeal I should have real New York detectives living in my house,” she said. “Sometimes I’ll just lay down and I’ll watch my extremely progressive news and I’ll just put one puppy here and one puppy here and I feel their heartbeats and, I know it sounds corny, it works wonders.”
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