Kathy Griffin: ‘I’ve Risen From the Ashes’

IN THE YEARS SINCE HER PHOTO SCANDAL, THE COMEDIAN HAS FACED CANCER, ADDICTION AND A DEVASTATING DIVORCE. NOW SHE’S BACK ON TOUR WITH A NEW LEASE ON LIFE

- BRIANNE TRACY

STILL STANDING "I just feel so fortunate that I survived the last few years," says Griffin (pre-facelift No. 3 at home in Malibu in 2024).

In her classic fashion Kathy Griffin was recently escorted out of a Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton. “Kris Jenner had gone in a room behind some curtains, and I went on the other side of the curtains and started tapping on the glass thinking it would be funny to act like I was a zombie, going, ‘Kris, it’s Kathy Griffin. I want to see your new face,’ ” jokes the comedian, who, like Jenner, recently had a facelift. “Then security physically removed me.”

Griffin’s recent antics are reminiscent of the same ones that kicked her career into overdrive in the mid-aughts on her Bravo show My Life on the D-List, now enjoying new life on Peacock. “My audiences are no-BS,” says Griffin, 64. “They want me to rip away the curtain just like I did at Paris’s party … and then they want to watch me get escorted out by security.”

Minus the security escort, Griffin does exactly that in her new comedy special