Kathy Griffin Has Some Choice Words for Former Friend Andy Cohen

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | September 11, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | September 11, 2024 |

Kathy Griffin’s fall from grace after that bloody Trump mask photo always confused me (and it’s looking even more ridiculous now), but the biggest surprise was that it instigated a falling out between her and Andy Cohen. And Anderson Cooper, but, you know, he’s a journalist, so I guess that’s less surprising.

Griffin spoke with Entertainment Weekly in promotion of her comedy tour, “My Life on the PTSD-List,” explaining that she “feels abandoned by her former friends, including Cohen and Cooper, both of whom she says distanced themselves from her after she posed for the notorious 2017 photograph that led to a Department of Justice probe over conspiracy to assassinate Trump.” I still can’t help but roll my eyes at the ridiculousness of that. When asked about “a potential continuation of My Life on the D-List,” her former reality show that ran on Bravo for six seasons, “why the original iteration of the show ended, and why she hasn’t done a Bravo stand-up special since 2013,” she became, according to EW at least, “uncharacteristically defensive.”

“Why doesn’t anyone ask Andy Cohen these questions? Why am I always having to put my feet to the fire? I’m always asked about Anderson and Andy. That was done to me. I don’t have an answer,” she replied, comparing the experience of being abandoned by the networks and Cohen to being “thrown away like a piece of trash.”

“Nobody goes up to Anderson and goes, ‘How could you have done that to Kathy?’ Nobody goes up to Andy and goes, ‘Andy, how could you do that to one of the stars of your network?’ Nobody asks them, ever,” she implored, further emphasizing that she’s had “no apologies” from anyone involved and that she was “deserted.”

“All I can do is be honest and say it hurts. It hurts that I’m not doing specials there. It hurts that they never let me do a spinoff with my mom and dad in the early years of the D-List. It hurts that they don’t want to do a D-List 2.0,” she concluded. “You’re talking to the half most-bitter, half happiest comedian you’ve ever met in your goddamn life.”

Maybe back in 2017 when everyone was still concerned with civility and journalistic integrity, Andy Cohen abandoning Kathy Griffin as she claims he did would have been understandable. But things are very different now, and no one has any qualms left about Cohen and his brand of television or what it represents. Hell, there are people out there calling him a coke-fueled narcissist, could Kathy Griffin really make anything worse?