Kathy Griffin Gets Candid About Her Suicide Attempt

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Kathy Griffin is opening up. The 61-year-old comedian spoke about her suicide attempt in a new interview with the New York Times’ “Sway” podcast. Click inside to read more… “I tried to kill myself, and ended up in the psych ward,” she explained on the show, following her 2017 scandal involving the photograph she took with a fake Donald Trump head. “I think — well, look, I think that I’m probably an addictive person, you know.

But you have to admit, it’s almost comical. I went in the hospital for pill addiction at 59 years old. Who the hell becomes a junkie in their late 50s?

Me,” she continued. “I didn’t know what to do with myself. I was just such a crazy workaholic, and all of a sudden, I had this time on my hands, and then I was depressed, and things just weren’t looking up.

And then you fall into the ‘Life will be better for my husband without me around.’” “I did a real detox,” she continued when discussing her recovery. “I didn’t go to the fancy place, because of COVID, but it was an important process, and I love my meetings that I go to and all that stuff.