Kathy Griffin Admits She Tried To Commit Suicide After Trump Backlash: ‘I Took About 100 Pills’

hollywoodlife.com:

Kathy Griffin admitted that she hit a rock bottom in June 2020 and tried to take her own life with prescription pills during an interview with The View on Thursday December 2.

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