Can’t you people understand, it’s all about me!
*This post has been updated to contain more video tweets.
Those may not have been the words of comedienne Kathy Griffin as she sat alongside Lisa Bloom, her attorney, at Friday’s press conference, but the implication was there all the same.
Kathy Griffin gets emotional over fallout from photo: “I don’t think I will have a career after this. I’m going to be honest, he broke me.” pic.twitter.com/upzPbAJHFD
— ABC News (@ABC) June 2, 2017
A reporter asked her if the fallout she’d received from posting a hideous photo of her holding a facsimile of President Donald Trump‘s severed head aloft like an Islamic State terrorist could affect her career.
The question was posed to her after she’d referred to Trump as “a fool.” Apparently because he tweeted that she should feel ashamed for the stunt.
“Absolutely, I don’t think I will have a career after this,” she answered. “I think he, I think her, I think he — I’m going to be honest: He broke me — he broke me,” she continued, then broke down into tears claiming her career was over.
“It’s not right.” she continued. “It’s just not right.”
The president’s 11-year-old son Barron probably thought that very thing when he went screaming to his mother after seeing the photo of what he really thought was his father’s bloodied head displayed on TV.
“It’s quite clear to me, they’re trying to use me as a distraction,” Griffin said, presumably talking about the Trump family.
Griffin said that she had apologized, and seemed to believe that everyone was just supposed to drop it at that point. But, because the outrage didn’t instantly blow over, Griffin grew nervous.
“I started to see what was really happening. And then it was a mob mentality pile on.”
Griffin also claimed she’s getting contant death threats:
"This is america, and you shouldn't have to die for it," Kathy Griffin says of death threats she's received https://t.co/T5uqozQu3e pic.twitter.com/6z5wigPMl7
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 2, 2017
And she blamed “older white guys” who’ve been trying “to keep her down” for her entire career:
"I'm not afraid of Donald Trump. He's a bully," Kathy Griffin says, but says her apology "absolutely stands" https://t.co/T5uqozQu3e pic.twitter.com/uU14paz46S
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 2, 2017
And her lawyer, with a straight face, claimed Griffin had no idea a bloody severed head would be interpreted as “a threat of violence.”
"[Kathy Griffin] never imagined that it could be misinterpreted as a threat of violence … that was never what she intended," lawyer says pic.twitter.com/VpSdvghfGA
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 2, 2017
Folks on Twitter weren’t impressed with either the performance or the waterworks.
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“he broke me?” i guess kathy is a special snowflake who is allowed to commit a hate crime, but we, the people, are not allowed to fight back
— gab.ai/wbvt (@WBVT_98FM) June 2, 2017
Griffin is doing her best Hillary Clinton impression here.. Its EVERYONE else’s fault.. Not mine.. What a joke.
— Johnny Wishbone (@JWishbon3) June 2, 2017
Oh boo hoo. She did something stupid and now she’s crying over the consequences…gosh does she suck.
— John Solano (@Solano_56) June 2, 2017
@kathygriffin pic.twitter.com/wC7Jf0qvcY
— Kimberly Corban (@Kimberly_Corban) June 2, 2017
U broke yourself Kathy u dumb bitch
— SgtMaj-USMC (@retireleo) June 2, 2017
Finally, is turnabout fair play? One person thought so.
— Perry (@BAMAPERRY) June 2, 2017
Ironically, this could be the big break of her career — she’s finally getting the attention she’s craved all her life.
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