Kathy Griffin outlined to ABC the dire personal troubles she found herself in during her 2017 tour, including battling a prescription drug addiction.
During the « Laugh Your Head Off » tour, followed In her controversial photo shoot with Tyler Shields, which showed her with a severed head from Donald Trump, the 60-year-old comedian said she had lost « a ton of weight » and was prescribed a series of pills. starting with Provigil, a stimulant used to treat sleep disorders like narcolepsy.
The « My Life on the D-List » star admitted that she fell in love with the pills she was taking – which included Ambien and pain relievers – and that things « got out of hand very quickly » .
« I thought, ‘Well, I don’t even drink … Big deal, I take a few pills every now and then, who doesn’t?' » She explained, adding, « Trust me … I laughed to stay alive. And what I found out was that if I can’t make others laugh, then I have no point in living. There’s no reason for me to live. «
Griffin, recently diagnosed with lung cancer, said she received death threats in the photoshoot, as did other members of her family.
» I mean legitimate Death threats with anything online that had the Google images of the house, the address, « Griffin said. “I mean, people showed up at my husband’s home. They tracked my sister down when she was dying of cancer in the hospital and called her … I took the call and heard it myself because I happened to be visiting her. «
» I’ve started to see it for myself that it was a good decision, « said the comedian. “I have put my living revocable trust in order. I had all of my ducks in a row. I wrote the note – the whole thing. ”
Griffin now credits her husband Randy Bick for helping her get clean. She was hospitalized and put on pre-trial psychiatric detention before being released and working with two clinicians to recover from pill addiction. She was hospitalized again in March 2020 with « excruciatingly painful » Covid-like symptoms, but could not be tested due to limitations.
« I got the irony that I just wanted to die a little over a year ago, » said Griffin. “Now I just want to live.”
If you or someone you know has any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or send an SMS to the Crisis Text Line at 741741
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