Posted on 12/02/2021 11:57:30 AM PST by DallasBiff
The comedy icon opened up about her struggles with addiction and mental health amid her cancer battle during an interview with ‘The View.’
The 61-year-old comedian admitted that between lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic and feeling like so many people were angry at her for her controversial photo holding a faux severed head for former President Donald Trump, she fell deeper into addiction.
While her story was undoubtedly emotional, Kathy eased the tension on the morning talk show by sliding a few jokes about Trump in. “I had fallen under the spell of pill addiction. I was really very addicted to prescription pills. I started probably kind of abusing them maybe a few years before the Trump thing—I’m not blaming it on him,” she said, as Joy Behar humorously gave her the okay to put the blame on the ex-president. Kathy jokingly blamed her battle with lung cancer on him. “He totally gave me cancer,” she quipped.
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I smell BS! They must have been placebos!
I’d easily believe that she is crazy.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
QED.
I give her credit for starting to wake people up to just how NUTS liberals are.
Too bad she didn’t take a 1000 pills.
Next time take 200
There was nothing controversial about Kathy Griffin’s meme. It was purely evil. Has she apologized yet?
or at least 101
Dang, so near and yet so far...
Too bad.
Karma, baby, it’s Karma.
“comedy icon”
Good grief.
100 for her is a light breakfast.
What’s a 100 more?
You’re taking the wrong pills Kathy.
I’m sure some Fentanyl would help.
“Comedy Icon”??
Who knew.
Just one more thing she failed at.
No one likes a quitter Kathy. Keep trying...
Kathy Griffin wasn’t depressed because people were angry with her; she despises them anyway. She was depressed because she realized she ended her D-list career.
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