Kathy Griffin After Trump’s Victory: ‘I Didn’t Realize How Racist and Sexist America Still Is’

Kathy Griffin, who famously took a photograph of herself holding a bloodied severed Trump’s head, blamed his win on racism and misogyny.

“I didn’t realize how racist and sexist America still is,” she said.

Kathy Griffin told ABC News’ “Nightline” in 2021 that she struggled with drug addiction and contemplated suicide following the intense backlash from her 2017 photo that featured her holding a severed head of then-President Trump.

“To be told by people in my own industry, ‘It’s over. Leave the country for five years. You’ve shamed our industry,’ on and on and on. It definitely got to me,” she said in the interview. “And so, I got to the point where I kind of agreed. Like, maybe it is time for me to go, and I’ve had a great life, and I don’t think there’s a next chapter for me.”

Last election cycle, Griffin stumped heavily for Democrats, even going as far as to say that “civil war” would erupt if Republicans won the midterm elections.

“If you don’t want a Civil War, vote for Democrats in November. If you do want Civil War, vote Republican,” she said in September.

Later, Griffin denied that she was threatening violence.

“You guys. The MAGA blue checks are at it again. Because they are constantly threatening a Civil War, they are now trying to suggest that I am the one who is threatening a Civil War. Because you know, that’s my thing,” she said.

In 2020, Griffin also called for physical violence against Trump by suggesting that someone use a syringe on him “with the air inside” — a potentially lethal act.

“A syringe with nothing but air inside would do the trick. F**K TRUMP,” she said.

Here’s her latest rant: