Kathy Griffin Talks Suicide Attempt, Dave Chappelle Controversy: ‘I Think Dave Is Just A Transphobic Guy’

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Kathy Griffin spoke candidly about her suicide attempt in a new interview with the New York Times’ “Sway” podcast. Griffin was famously criticized back in 2017 for posing for a photo with a bloodied replica of then-president Donald Trump’s decapitated head.

The snap got her fired from her annual New Year’s Eve CNN co-hosting job and numerous theatres cancelled her shows. “I tried to kill myself, and ended up in the psych ward,” Griffin admitted. READ MORE: Kathy Griffin Insists She Was ‘Erased’ Not ‘Cancelled’ After That 2017 Donald Trump Controversy “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 added of that time, “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.