Kathy Griffin Accuses Andy Cohen and Bravo of Disposing of Her 'Like Trash,' Claims Rejection of 'My Life on the D-List' Sequel - lulu

Kathy Griffin's friendship with Bravo's Andy Cohen and CNN's Anderson Cooper might've been relegated to her own personal Z-list after fallout from her infamous photo with a bloodied mask that resembled the severed head of Donald Trump, but the Emmy-winning comedian and My Life on the D-List star tells Entertainment Weekly the bitter end of the relationships still carries a grade-A sting.

During an interview for the upcoming leg of her ongoing My Life on the PTSD-List comedy tour, the 63-year-old explains that she feels abandoned by her former friends, including Cohen and Cooper, both of whom she says distanced themselves from her after she posed for the notorious 2017 photograph that led to a Department of Justice probe over conspiracy to assassinate Trump and Griffin's name being added to the no-fly list, an Interpol criminal list, and, she says, international terrorist watchlists.

"Why doesn’t anyone ask Andy Cohen these questions? Why am I always having to put my feet to the fire? I’m always asked about Anderson and Andy. That was done to me. I don’t have an answer," she stresses when asked about why her My Life on the D-List docuseries ended in 2010, likening the dissolution of her relationship with the duo to being "thrown away like a piece of trash" after the ordeal. "Nobody goes up to Anderson and goes, 'How could you have done that to Kathy?' Nobody goes up to Andy and goes, 'Andy, how could you do that to one of the stars of your network?' Nobody asks them, ever."

Andy Cohen and Kathy Griffin. 

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While Cohen, 56, is a high-ranking personality at Bravo, Cooper, 57, wasn't involved with the network during D-List or any of Griffin's 18 stand-up specials that aired on the channel between 2004 and 2013 — the same year her late-night talk show Kathy also ended on Bravo. Cooper did, however, continue without Griffin as cohost of his annual New Year's Eve Live special on CNN, which Cohen inherited after the news organization fired Griffin following the Trump scandal.

Griffin maintains that she's received "no apologies" from her former friends. "Not one," she says. "Not from one single person. Not my friends who deserted me, not industry people, not people I’ve known for years and showed up to every one of their charity events or did stand-up for free."

While Griffin says she's happy that My Life on the D-List recently returned to stream on the NBC-owned Peacock platform, it doesn't come without a reminder of all that she went through at Bravo.

"All I can do is be honest and say it hurts. It hurts that I’m not doing specials there. It hurts that they never let me do a spinoff with my mom and dad in the early years of the D-List. It hurts that they don’t want to do a D-List 2.0," she admits.

She also notes that she's "really proud" of The D-List, and still savors what she says is its authentic portrayal of the craziness in her life, as it comically documented her struggle to maintain pop culture relevance through various gigs, appearances, and philanthropic efforts.

That pride in the program's grounded hilarity, though, is what Griffin claims laid the foundation for the show's conclusion.

"Around the last season, they started sending me what are called 'liners' for the confessionals. I was like, no, nobody writes what I say. I write all of my own material. When you’d see me sit down and do those confessionals, that was me, whatever I thought would be funny," she tells EW, later elaborating: "In the last season, I felt like they were leaning toward wanting it to be a little bit more set up, because it’s probably cheaper to do a soft-scripted."

She continues: "When they wanted to tell me what to say, like, 'Kathy should comment this line after seeing her assistant do this,' I was like, 'No.' They wanted random liners, like, 'Hey Kathy, could you say, 'I couldn't stand him that day?' And I’m like, 'No, what if that was [edited to look like it was] about my dad?' Creatively, that was a place they were going."

Kathy Griffin performs in 2024.

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An insider source close to the situation tells EW that “Andy has been asked ad nauseam about Kathy’s many lies about their relationship, and as he said the last time Howard Stern asked him [that] he wishes her all the best and has nothing more to say." When reached for comment, a representative for Cooper at CNN tells us that the esteemed journalist has "no comment" on Griffin's statements. EW also reached out to Bravo for comment.

In 2018, Cohen previously addressed his relationship with Griffin, praising her for "selling out all these venues" and that "she loves to have a comeback; she loves publicity" before elaborating on why he felt she had an ongoing issue with him — especially after TMZ captured him on video claiming to not know who Griffin was.

“I got the job that she had on CNN,” Cohen told Stern. “I’m on Bravo all these hours. I get it. So, hate me. I’ll be that guy for you. If it makes you happy and gives you peace. I’m just not going to take it on myself. I’m at peace. I’m a lover, not a fighter.”

Tickets for Griffin's My Life on the PTSD-List tour are available for purchase now.

Source : ew.com