Kathy Griffin is attempting to find the humor in her past struggle with pill addiction, explaining that it’s “almost comical” in a new interview.
“I think — well, look, I think that I’m probably an addictive person, you know,” Griffin, 61, said of the circumstances that led to her addiction on The New York Times’ Sway podcast on Thursday.
“But you have to admit, it’s almost comical,” she continued. “I went in the hospital for pill addiction at 59 years old. Who the hell becomes a junkie in their late 50s? Me.”
Griffin fell victim to cancel culture in 2017 after posing for a gory snap of herself holding Donald Trump’s bloody and decapitated head. The controversial shot resulted in the stand-up losing work and her sense of purpose, accumulating into an attempted suicide.
“I didn’t know what to do with myself,” Griffin admitted. “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,’ and you then call the estate attorney and the whole thing.”
The comedian married marketing executive Randy Bick in December 2020.
“It just came to a point where I was convinced that I had a good run on this planet and now it’s time for me to go,” she went on. “It’s been good. I’ve done a lot of great stuff and so you know, it gets pretty crazy.”
Griffin first opened up about her addiction and suicide attempt to ABC News August 2021, soon after revealing her lung cancer diagnosis. Fortunately, the funny lady has been cancer-free since December.
