WATCH – TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES –
Dec. 2, 2021 – Griffin was referring to the 2017 photo of her holding a bloody effigy of then-President Donald Trump’s head. She lost her job at CNN over the photo and was investigated by the Secret Service before being cleared two months later. Griffin said she didn’t blame her addiction on Trump or the backlash that resulted from the photo — including her being “blacklisted,” in co-host Joy Behar’s words— but she did say the incident was “much more frightening than cancer,” due in large part to feeling like the world hated her and thought she was “disgusting and irrelevant.”
