Comedian Kathy Griffin Reveals Her Extreme Case Of Complex PTSD!

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: Bruce Wayne | In controversy , Health

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Comedian Kathy Griffin has revealed she has been diagnosed with an extreme case of PTSD through a Tiktok video.
The comedian also claimed that the condition stemmed from her public falling-out after posting a picture of Donald Trump’s fake severed head in 2017.

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Kathy Griffin reveals her diagnosis of complex PTSD

Controversial American comedian Kathy Griffin has revealed that she is suffering from “complex PTSD” in a TikTok video she posted earlier this week.

She said in the video:

“Let’s talk about PTSD. Never talked about it publicly. You can laugh or whatever, but I’ve been diagnosed with complex PTSD, and it’s called an extreme case.”

She also went on to claim that it started after her infamous Donald Trump tweet:

“If any of you know my story, you’ll understand that this really started for me about 5 ½ years ago. Wink.”

After the photo circulated, she didn’t leave her home for months and said she suffered “an erasure”. Moreover, since that incident, she has also started taking any prescription pill she could get her hands on.

Kathy Griffin was diagnosed with cancer previously (Source: PEOPLE)

In 2021, she was diagnosed with stage 1 lung cancer which also “didn’t help” with her complex PTSD. She also underwent surgery to remove a part of her lung, and announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live that she was cancer free.

In the video, she also asked her followers and fans for advice about depression and anxiety and how they cope with it:

“I’d love to hear from you guys about depression or anxiety, that kind of stuff, and how you cope.”

Following that video, she later posted an update on Friday, claiming to be having an anxiety attack as she was walking along the beach.

On Saturday, she posted a third TikTok video talking directly to the camera. She also thanked her followers for all the support she received and revealed that she woke up fine that day as her PTSD is worse in the mornings.

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The Donald Trump picture she posted got her ‘cancelled’

In May 2017, Kathy Griffin, shared a photo of herself holding a mask depicting Donald Trump’s severed head. This led to her being ‘canceled’ or in her words, “erased”.

In the caption of the picture, she wrote:

“I caption this ‘there was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his … wherever'”.

Her caption was a reference to a comment made by the then-president about Megyn Kelly.

After facing major backlash for the post, she took it down and apologized and begged for forgiveness but it was too late.

Kathy Griffin posted this picture on her social media (Source: Entertainment Weekly)

The president himself tweeted:

“Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11-year-old son Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!”

Her career was disrupted after that scandal as her comedy tour was canceled, and she lost her endorsement deal with Squatty Potty.

In addition, CNN terminated her co-hosting job on their New Year’s Eve special with Anderson Cooper, and 25 theaters canceled her upcoming shows.

Prior to the scandal, the controversial comedian had performed numerous stand-up shows and executive produced her own program, ‘Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List’, which aired on Bravo from 2005 to 2010.

Furthermore, she stated that she received thousands of death threats, some of which were left on her mother’s answering machine, and others were called into her sister Joyce’s hospital room.

According to The NY Times, she was investigated by The Secret Service and the Department of Justice after the post.

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