"I was really the first celebrity to be thrown into the wood chipper"

If there is a word to describe Kathy Griffin while she returns to what for her is the normal and hectic life of a comic book, it would probably be the one that suits her the best for a large part of his career: the challenge
In the 80s and 90s, she was defiant of what was often a boy comedy club, following in the footsteps of her idol Joan Rivers. His material was accompanied by a mixture of eccentrics and honesty about being both an insider and an outsider on the celebrity scale who led on his reality show Bravo in the mid-2000s, My Life on the D-List. 19659002] But she fell from grace last year after taking part in a photo shoot in which she held a bloody Halloween mask of President Trump's beheaded head. At first, she did not think much of it until her friend (and her Trump target) Rosie O'Donnell said, "Your photo is taking off and people think you're in the Islamic State, "recalls Griffin. "Honestly, I went back to bed for two hours thinking that she was joking."
She quickly understood that the shot was not a joke story. Even many critics of Trump have been outraged by the image, and Griffin has become a media outcast. She lost her longtime concert on the Times Square show in New York, and even co-host and close friend Anderson Cooper is distant from her. She was subjected to scrutiny by the Secret Service, rooms across the country canceled her concerts and talk shows avoided her. Her tearful apology did little to calm the uproar, and she claimed that Trump and her supporters had destroyed her livelihood.
"I learned pretty quickly what I had been thrown at. I call it the wood chipper Trump, "she recently said in a Hollywood office of a concert promoter. "I was really the first celebrity to be thrown into the wood chipper." Like, [Trump] did it all throughout the campaign: Lyin & Ted [Cruz] Little Marco [Rubio] I should not have been naive enough not to understand how this device was already operational and so sophisticated. "
More than a year after the incident, Griffin returned to the Show-biz arena, as candid and provocative
In a free conversation that was published for length and clarity, Griffin revisits his experiences as the # 1 public enemy and the path of the back to the stage.


year since this picture of you holding the Trump mask and all the controversy that followed. Looking back, is that moment something that makes you angry, or is it more like there were things you would do differently?
It's more like solving. I would not change anything. I've thought a lot about that in the beginning, as you know, it's the image that we hear all over the world. Obviously, at first it was scary, until Jim Carrey said, "You're the most famous comedian in the world today, Kathy" while I was sobbing "For all the bad reasons! "Then he said," Use that. In fact, he said, "When you come out, you will have a story to which any comedian will give his right arm. "
I really had two really tough days in a sobbing ball on the floor, but you know, I'm so wired to do comedy that, right away, I started, you know, to throw ideas.Come with the tour title Laugh Your Head Off, not knowing if I would be able to shoot again.
Living under the specter of a federal inquiry, which lasted two months before an interrogation [Secret Service] where I could have left in handcuffs because they were planning to charge me with conspiracy to murder the President of the United States.I was the only woman targeted this way. did not do it to Johnny Depp or Snoop or Morrissey You know, I understand.


It must have been quite isolating.
I did not even leave my house for the first few months, honestly, because the death threats were so intense. confused iodine, you can not stop an actor from thinking, "This crazy girl has arrived and I hope that I will be able to make her not only funny but accessible."
maybe I could make that as well fun while passing a message. So even in the darkest day when I said, "It could happen to me, it could happen to you." Look at Sam Bee


How did you go about to defend you?
I had my real First Amendment advocate, Alan Isaacman, who is the real guy that Edward Norton is playing in The People Vs. Larry Flynt. Because I thought, wait a minute. I want someone who won a case in the Supreme Court on behalf of Larry Flynt. This guy should be able to exonerate me.
So, hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees later, he negotiated the interrogation in his office. It was a great moment, because the administration wanted me to do a perp, like a criminal. So, you know, cut off all the time I said, "Love me or hate me, but these are scary things that never happened in this country, not in my lifetime."



I've always been a kind of vulgar and profane mission to be a bit of a role model for young women, LGBT people, people who are deprived of their rights.
But now more than ever, I want all those groups of people who feel anxious, no matter what Hispanic community does not know they're going to be safe in leaving their house to a young actress who heard "Chicks are funny" life, to the person of color who is afraid to enter their vehicle. I said to myself, things have become so crazy that it's time to reverse that frown and blow up all that.
By the way, it was not a threat when I said "explode".


You started this tour last year – what was the return to the stage like?
I am so grateful to really be able to work on the show abroad. I started in Auckland, New Zealand. Finished in Reykjavik, Iceland, which in itself is funny. We now have a government that can drive a comedian to Reykjavik for a living or to tell a joke.
I really appreciate to explain the whole process to the public, because, No. 1, I am satisfied and grateful. They really want to hear it. Like, they want to hear the low and dirty stuff about the actual query. They also want to know how my mother has a new 9 year old dog and I told her that the dog was 5 years old, because she was 98 years old …


How was the reception? ovation every show. There is a real thirst in almost every other country – with the exception of those Trump likes – to hear and see an American woman go on stage and admit that some crazy stuff has been achieved.


Has this experience changed Comedy?
Like, people say, "Have you softened?" I'm like, "No. I do not have [care] to give … So all my complaints about not being on TV – and I'd like to be back on TV, because that's my training ground – I love the freedom to shoot because there's not a 75-year-old white who's gonna come and say, " You can not do that anymore, miss. "Not even the president, I do not have a publicist, I do not have an agent, none of that, it's just me. You know how I get talk shows? I'm the host.


You're still active on Twitter and in May you created a "moment" that revisited your experience with this Social media is a difficult place for you to be in general?
Oh, vicious.It is a cesspool


And as a comic woman I imagine that it can get even harder.
People become me fearful ns, and obviously the biggest boost I can have, it's more this administration "Yeah, compared to what Rudy Giuliani just said about Jim Comey, maybe the trick of Kathy Griffin's ketchup-y was not so bad. "Like, no one was really hurt. – Los Angeles Times / TNS