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🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | From NPR, I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute. My guest for this episode, she was really |
0:10.7 | curious whether I'd seen her newest project. Did you watch the movie? Oh yeah, I did. |
0:16.0 | You did? Of course I did. Oh my god, I'm so excited. Yeah. Oh thank you. She was excited |
0:21.2 | because for a while now, a lot of us haven't seen that much of her at all. My name is |
0:26.2 | Kathy Griffin and I've been involved in a little scandal coming up on two years. So wait, |
0:32.5 | it's been that long. May 30 of 2017. So you count the days? The night that changed my life forever. |
0:38.6 | Okay, let's back up. Talk about how we got there. In 2017, a scandal almost killed Kathy Griffin's |
0:46.1 | career and it actually started during some downtime for her. In between like gigs, I will just do a |
0:52.5 | million crazy things to try to make you laugh. And on that day, no joke. I had done a photo shoot. |
0:58.0 | We had no paperwork. There was no public. Where were the photos supposed to go? Anywhere. Kathy says |
1:03.2 | the whole photo shoot took about 20 minutes and it was pretty nonsensical except for one photo. I |
1:08.5 | did say I want to do some kind of a picture to shame Trump. Kathy said she was mad at Donald Trump |
1:14.5 | for what he said about Megan Kelly, the former Fox news host. This is after Kelly grilled him in a |
1:20.1 | presidential debate in 2015. You know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes about blood coming out |
1:26.5 | of her way or ever. But she was so Kathy Griffin wanted a photo of a bloody Trump. No joke. Like I |
1:33.5 | sent a friend of mine out to like a party store, like a Halloween store or something. And I said, |
1:38.2 | just bring back anything like America slash Trumpi. And the picture Kathy holds up this Trump mask over a |
1:44.5 | Styrofoam wig head covered in ketchup. She puts it online and then the backlash. Kathy Griffin fired |
1:52.7 | by CNN over that photo of her holding a bloody Trump head. You might recall this whole story. |
1:57.9 | After that photo came out, the president tweeted about it. Kathy lost work immediately even after she |
2:03.7 | apologized. And there was more fallout. Federal officials threatened to charge Kathy Griffin with |
2:08.9 | conspiracy to assassinate the president. I couldn't fly for two months. Okay. I mean, at all. |
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