Griffin recants severed head apology
A year after the scandal, the comedian’s attitude has changed
One year on, Kathy Griffin’s big regret isn’t being photographed with a bloody, decapitated Donald Trump head — it’s apologizing for it.
The comedian, 57, made her amends last May after the graphic photo went viral, declaring she had crossed a line and would continue to ask the public’s forgiveness.
But Monday on “The View,” Griffin’s attitude toward the image — which landed her under federal investigation — took an entirely different tone.
“What a year it’s been. By the way, I take the apology back. F — k him. And the sons, Don Jr. and Eric … ,” Griffin said on the ABC daytime talk show.
“Look, I’m not holding back on this family. This president is different and I have been through the mill, and so now I’m back on the road.”
The “My Life on the D-List” star explained that while she does regret issuing an apology, it was the mother of murdered, beheaded journalist Daniel Pearl that prompted her to say sorry.
“I do (regret apologizing) because that apology was … I performed in Iraq and Afghanistan, two places Trump has never been and can’t find on a map,” she said. “Of course because of my connection with the military, I thought of Daniel Pearl’s mother and … when I thought of her, I thought, ‘OK, apologize.’ ”
But Griffin says things changed for her once she discovered she was simply part of what she called the “Trump woodchipper.”
The comedian was essentially exiled after the scandal, as she lost the support of high-profile friends like Anderson Cooper, and had companies like Netflix, CNN, Bravo, E! and NBC all cut ties.