[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]
Kathy Griffin is delivering her tackle the Danny Masterson rape trial.
Specifically, the comic is asking out Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis for having so publicly defended their That 70s Show co-star with letters of assist previous to his sentencing final week. Of course, Masterson is now going through many years in jail after having been convicted of a number of rape counts. And each Ashton and Mila are catching critical criticism on-line for his or her protection of him previous to sentencing.
Related: Kutcher’s Comments About 15-Year-Old Hilary Duff Resurface Amid Masterson Defense
Now, the My Life On The D-List star is having her say. In a TikTook video printed on Sunday, Kathy referred to as out Ashton, Mila, and others together with Giovanni Ribisi for his or her letters of assist for Masterson, first saying:
“The notion that this guy was also convicted of drugging these women … that is such serious stuff that I don’t really care that when they were working on That ’70s Show he was like a good guy to work with.”
The call-out wasn’t nearly searching for justice for Masterson’s victims, although. It needed to do with a difficulty very close to to Kathy’s personal coronary heart: the tragic and terrible case of her late brother Ken Griffin.
Speaking about Ken, and referencing how she has beforehand written about him, the comic mentioned:
“Alright, so I’m going to open up about something, and this video is long, I apologize. But my brother, who is now dead — his name is Ken Griffin — was a pedophile. I wrote about it in my first book, and it was a horrible, horrible thing, and I tried to get him caught.”
Linking her personal try at getting Ken caught to the other of Ashton and Mila’s choice to again Masterson, Kathy went on:
“Now this was my brother, so I don’t want to hear about Ashton and Mila and Giovanni Ribisi and people that feel like they had to stick up for Danny Masterson because he was their bro, or he was their buddy. This was my own brother. And two of his girlfriends confessed to me that he also physically abused them very violently.”
She then revealed how she referred to as the Los Angeles Police Department twice about her brother:
“I called LAPD about it twice, because my brother was the super of a building, and that’s how he gained access to his victims. He was the manager of an apartment building in Hollywood, so he had keys to all the units, and he allegedly — he never went to prison for it, he went to prison for something else — molested a boy and a girl.”
OMG…
According to Kathy, the scenario brought about a “giant rift” inside her household:
“This has been something that caused a giant rift within my family. For many years, I was shunned from my own family because I was trying to get my brother Ken arrested. … So, I was in and out of my family, and sometimes they would write me letters saying I’m not a Griffin anymore. It was a horrible thing. He was the focal point of the family, in a way, because it was such a serious thing.”
And it had lasting results on her — to not point out the 2 little youngsters who she believes had been molested by her brother:
“It’s always haunted me that I could never do anything about it. I think about those children every day, and I think about other victims he probably had. … The point is that blood was not thicker than water in my case, and if you know that somebody is committing SA [sexual assault], you should do something if you can. My God, at least try.”
Ugh.
You can watch Kathy’s full (and really critical) TikTook video about her brother’s unsettling alleged previous (beneath):
@kathygriffin Trigger warning. This has haunted me my entire life. I attempted the whole lot I may consider. No one would do something. #SA #speakup #believevictims #believewomen #triggerwarning
♬ authentic sound – realkathygriffin
Such a horrible factor to undergo. Not just for the victims (clearly), but in addition all the opposite folks affected by such critical and long-lasting actions like this, too.
We ship our like to all of the victims impacted by sexual assault right here — be they in Masterson’s case disturbing case, or the one allegedly involving the late Ken Griffin.
If you have got honest trigger to suspect baby abuse, name the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org.
If you or somebody you realize has skilled sexual violence and want to be taught extra about assets, contemplate trying out https://www.rainn.org/resources.
[Image via FayesVision/Drew Altizer/MEGA/WENN]
Discussion about this post