Kathy Griffin recollects Stephen Colbert making her cry over Trump interview: ‘He got here for me’

Kathy Griffin is recalling the one and solely time she appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — and claims that the host's conduct through the interview made her cry.

In a 29-minute episode of her YouTube show Talk Your Head Off, the comic shared her emotional recollections of her 2017 interview with Stephen Colbert on the CBS speak present, which primarily revolved round her controversial photograph shoot holding a recreation of Donald Trump's decapitated head.

Griffin referred to as Colbert a "dick" recalling his line of questioning as "laced with misogyny," and claiming she believed the host may inform that he was making her cry through the interview.

Representatives for Colbert and The Late Present didn’t instantly reply to Leisure Weekly's request for remark.

Griffin defined in nice element that she requested not to debate the photograph, because the dialog across the controversy had dominated her life for the previous yr after it obtained criticism from the president himself, prompted the Secret Service to analyze the comic (which ended together with her being "fully exonerated" of wrongdoing, in her phrases), and ultimately led to her apologizing to the commander-in-chief (although she later retracted her apology).

In her video, Griffin claims {that a} phase producer from The Late Present agreed, "We received't speak in regards to the image." Nevertheless, in her recollection, the producer went again on his phrase when she arrived to the set of the present and advised her "[Colbert] needs to speak in regards to the image."

The comic recalled being distraught and nervous, as she had hoped to plug her then-forthcoming efficiency at Carnegie Corridor. "For those who go down the street of speaking about that image, it could get actually darkish, and the main points from the fallout from that image are darkish as effectively," she mentioned she advised the producer. "[Colbert] is aware of that image was lined, and he is aware of that my investigation was BS, and he makes enjoyable of Donald Trump, and everyone knows Trump is nothing however a clown, so I believe we're like-minded on this."

After attempting to direct the dialog away from the photograph, Griffin mentioned she couldn't escape from Colbert's persistence through the interview. "He goes in in regards to the Trump image, however he goes in arduous," she recalled. "He went with the road of the questioning of the 'What have been you considering?' and the 'You will need to have recognized it was too far,' and people type of factor. It was a line of questioning that I bear in mind considering, 'Wow, he has far more of a bias towards me and my proper to take that photograph than I imagined in my worst case state of affairs.'"

Griffin claimed that Colbert "saved going, and saved going" in regards to the subject. "After which the tears got here," she mentioned. "So I felt my eyes replenish, and I assumed, 'Oh God no, something however this, something however you're a grown lady who's a feminine comic attempting to show that you could sustain with the boys. You can not cry.'"

Griffin mentioned that she efficiently averted permitting the viewers to see her cry. "I’m glad to say not one tear escaped my tear ducts, so I didn’t cry," she mentioned. "I didn’t have a tear that was seen to the viewers. I don't suppose the viewers may inform that my eyes stuffed up."

Nevertheless, the comic mentioned that she suspects that the late evening host was conscious of her emotional state. "I do suppose Stephen may inform," she alleged. "It didn’t cease him. I didn’t really feel he had any empathy, however I did really feel he had an understanding of what was occurring, and that's what made it worse. And I bear in mind considering, 'You requested me to be on this present. I'm a visitor. That is your present. That is your world.'"

Griffin went on to say that her perspective on the Late Present interview led her to detest Colbert. "I’ve such a low opinion of Stephen Colbert now," she mentioned. "He's not gonna hear about this, but when he does, he'll most likely challenge a kind of statements saying I made the entire thing up, and that I'm irrelevant, and that he didn't know I used to be crying, bla bla bla. I'm so used to guys making statements like that about me, it's ridiculous."

The comic additionally accused Colbert of "punching down" at her. "He has achieved nearly every thing you possibly can as a comic, and he's wildly proficient, and he's clearly very vivid, however man, what a dick," she opined. "What a dick, and to go for me of all folks, simply, to me, it had such a, it was so laced with misogyny, however that undercurrent of misogyny the place he would most likely be shocked to listen to that anybody would accuse of him of getting an oz of misogyny. However I simply bear in mind considering, 'He wouldn’t speak right down to the blokes like this. He simply wouldn't. I don't suppose I've ever seen him deal with any of the man comics like this.'"

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Griffin mentioned that she launched her tears as quickly because the interview concluded. " I walked off and I bear in mind I used to be about one step away from the desk, after which the tears got here, however I used to be nonetheless smiling and waving, and I may really feel them coming down my cheeks," she claimed. "The EP, govt producer, rushed over to me, noticed that I used to be crying and I simply mentioned 'What was that? What was that?'"

Griffin mentioned that the producer tried to elucidate Colbert's line of questioning. "He mentioned, 'He simply couldn't recover from the image. He simply can't recover from it,'" the comic claimed.

"And I am going, 'What's for him to recover from? I don't perceive. It wasn't an image of his decapitated head,'" Griffin recalled responding.

Griffin mentioned that the EP's full rationalization for the host's fascination with the photograph stemmed from his faith. "He mentioned, 'Stephen's actually Catholic.' And I am going, 'What? What does that should do with something? I used to be raised Catholic too!' And he mentioned, 'I believe that's what it’s.' I simply mentioned, 'Oh, okay, I can't make any sense of that.'"

The comic ended her story with a plea to the Late Present host. "I’m simply being trustworthy to one of the best of my recollection, so Stephen Colbert, please don't be a dick once more and sue me," Griffin mentioned. "I simply needed to inform of us the wildest behind the scenes tales of any speak present I've ever finished. And now you recognize why I haven't been on that present since, and by no means will likely be once more."

Watch Griffin's full video about her alleged expertise on The Late Present above.

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