Kathy Griffin joked that she is losing money due to her hefty travel expenses on her comedy tour, My Life on the PTSD-List.
While traveling on an hourlong flight from Los Angeles to her San Jose, the 63-year-old comedian admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that her decision to fly private was financially irresponsible.
‘I joke that I’m losing money on this tour because of the jet,’ she quipped. ‘I know it’s spoiled, but it’s worth it. I get to sleep with my babies and avoid the airport, where a lot of Trumpers still feel the need to come up to me and tell me how horrible I am.’
It’s no surprise the reality star, who has an estimated net worth of $50 million, prefers to charter her own jet versus dealing with long lines and other passengers.
Mikey O’Connell, who interviewed the actress, described Griffin as entering a ‘semi-meditative state’ with her eyes closed and hand on her chihuahua mix as she made her way to Northern California.
Kathy Griffin joked that she is losing money due to her hefty travel expenses on her comedy tour, My Life on the PTSD-List
He also noted she had her earbuds in and was listening to hour 23 of Barbra Streisand’s 48-hour audiobook memoir.
Previously, the star spent two months of 2017 on the No Fly List while under federal investigation by the Justice Department after posting a controversial photo of her holding a bloody fake replica of former President Trump’s head.
Previously, she insisted that sharing the infamous image left her ‘unemployable and uninsurable.’
In 2019, she revealed she has faced numerous threats and was approached by a man with a knife after the 2017 stunt, which made her a Hollywood pariah.
Griffin initially apologized for the stunt but later revoked that statement and now stands by the photo and insists it was free speech.
‘You can be as offended by that photo all you want, that doesn’t bother me at all,’ she said.
‘But I want people to know I didn’t break the law. If you take a photo like that, you didn’t break the law.
‘I didn’t violate the First Amendment in any way. If you take a photo like that, you didn’t violate the First Amendment in any way.’
While traveling on an hourlong flight from Los Angeles to her San Jose, the 63-year-old comedian admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that her decision to fly private was financially irresponsible
In the wake of the photo she also had to buy metal detectors because ‘there were all kinds of incidents. A guy came at me with a knife in Houston,’ she said.
The Emmy winner claimed she had been under investigation by federal authorities into whether she was a credible threat.
She then said that she was put under federal investigation, and even put on the no-fly list while also being ‘interrogated under oath… which has never happened in the history of this country.’
‘The President and the Department of Justice shouldn’t make you unemployable and uninsurable,’ she said.
‘I’m still on the D-list,’ she quipped, referring to the Bravo reality series that earned her two Emmy Awards.
The scandal erupted in May 2017 when Griffin posed with the bloodied mask in a photoshoot with photographer Tyler Shields.
Griffin captioned it with a reference to ‘blood coming out of his wherever’ – a play on Trump’s controversial comments about TV host Megyn Kelly.
‘I joke that I’m losing money on this tour because of the jet,’ she explained. ‘I know it’s spoiled, but it’s worth it. I get to sleep with my babies and avoid the airport, where a lot of Trumpers still feel the need to come up to me and tell me how horrible I am’ (seen in May 2024)
But the photo was widely understood as a joke about the President’s violent death.
She faced condemnation from across the political spectrum, including from the President himself who said Griffin ‘should be ashamed of herself’.
Trump called the stunt ‘sick’, adding that his young son Barron was ‘having a hard time with this’.
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, called it ‘vile and wrong’ and said it was ‘never funny to joke about killing a president’.
Griffin was dropped from CNN’s New Year’s Eve show and co-host Anderson said the photo was ‘clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate’.
Previously, the star spent two months of 2017 on the No Fly List while under federal investigation by the Justice Department
She had been the co-host of CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast for 10 years before she was fired in the aftermath of the photo.
In December 2023, she and her husband Randy Bick announced they were ending their four-year marriage.
