Comedian Kathy Griffin has addressed the photos that have surfaced from her with Donald Trump in a new YouTube video, which provides context for the images. She said: “There was a time when I knew Donald as someone who would show up at the opening of an envelope, and I would sometimes sit next to him, and he would laugh at my jokes.”
Find out how Kathy Griffin responded to the reemergence of Trump photos
The two-time Emmy and Grammy Award-winning comedian discussed the photos in a June 9 YouTube video and confirmed that they were authentic and not created with the help of artificial intelligence. In the video, Griffin confirmed that the footage was real. She also pointed out that she is wearing the same dress as in the photos, in which she sits next to President Trump and financial advisor Suze Orman.
She described Donald Trump as someone who “would show up at the opening of an envelope,” and recalled sitting next to him at events where he laughed at her jokes. Kathy added, “I’m not glorifying him in any way in his final days. I want to show you that it’s not an AI photo.”
About the photos, she went on to say, “I think it captures the 2000s so well, where I would see Donald very often at events, and he was always present. I just wanted to let you know that I am aware that there are a lot of photos of me with Donald, and MAGA people like to post them and make it look like I’m a fake when I pretended to jokingly, Perseus-style, want to decapitate him in a photo.”
According to EW, in 2017, a controversial satirical photo shoot showed her holding a fake, bloody head resembling Trump. She revealed: “It led to very real consequences for her in her life and career.” President Trump also hit her and tweeted“Kathy Griffin should be ashamed.”
In an interview with EW in 2024, Griffin, who was previously married to entertainment marketing director Randy Bick, said the controversy led to her losing friends like Andy Cohen and receiving support from Bravo, where she hosted her Emmy-winning series My Life on the D-List. She said she felt like they were “throwing her away like a piece of trash.”
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