Kathy Griffin details 2020 suicide attempt, pill addiction

LAUGHING BEHIND THE TEARS –

August 2, 2021- You never know what goes on behind closed doors.

Kathy Griffin outlined to ABC the dire personal straits she found herself in while on tour in 2017, including battling an addiction to prescription drugs.

During the “Laugh Your Head Off” tour following her controversial photoshoot with Tyler Shields that showed her with a severed Donald Trump head, the 60-year-old comedian said she lost “a ton of weight” and was prescribed a number of pills, starting with Provigil, a stimulant meant to treat sleep disorders like narcolepsy.

The “My Life on the D-List” star admitted she “fell in love” with the pills she was taking — which also included Ambien and painkillers — and things “got out of control very rapidly.” Griffin, who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, said she was receiving death threats as part of the photoshoot backlash, as were other members of her family.

“I mean, legit death threats with everything, from online, which [had] the Google pictures of the house, the address,” Griffin said. “I mean, folks showed up to my husband’s parents’ house. They tracked my sister down when she was dying of cancer in the hospital and called her … I picked up the call and heard it myself because I happened to be visiting her.” Griffin hit a breaking point in early 2020 and her thoughts of suicide became “obsessive.”“I started really convincing myself it was a good decision,” the comedian said. “I got my living revocable trust in order. I had all my ducks in a row. I wrote the note — the whole thing.”