Kathy Griffin Slams Andy Cohen Before CNN’s ‘New Year’s Eve Live’

No holding again. Kathy Griffin slammed Andy Cohen and stated she received’t watch CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live particular to ring in 2023.

“Ugh. Every year someone sends me this clip around New Year’s Eve,” Griffin, 62, wrote through Instagram on Saturday, December 31, alongside a video of Cohen speaking to TMZ in 2017.

In the video, the Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen host, 54, was requested about changing Griffin on CNN’s year-end particular, however pretended he didn’t know the comic. “Who?” he requested. “I don’t know her.”

In her publish on Saturday, Griffin added: “This guy was my boss for years. Decided whether or not I worked at Bravo. Can you imagine seeing your ex boss on TMZ like…this? Ouch! Anyway, I can’t wait to watch Miley [Cyrus] and Dolly [Parton] tonight. 🔥🔥⚡️.”

She additionally included the hashtag, “misogynist.”

The My Life on the D-List alum hosted alongside Anderson Cooper on the cable information community for 9 years. CNN fired Griffin in May 2017, days after she posed in a photograph shoot with a bloody severed head meant to appear to be President Donald Trump. “We found what she did disgusting and offensive,” the community stated in an announcement on the time. “We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down.”

Cooper, 55, slammed the picture in an announcement on the time however claimed he was nonetheless on good phrases with Griffin. In July 2017, the journalist was requested about their relationship on WWHL. “Yeah, we’re still friends, and look I said what I said about — I didn’t think what she said was appropriate, but I wish her the best and I hope she bounces back,” he advised Cohen on the time.

Griffin later advised New York Magazine that he didn’t attain out to her till the next August, extra three months after the preliminary controversy. She ended their friendship at that time.

Earlier this month, she recalled how her life has modified for the reason that picture controversy in an op-ed for Newsweek. “I learned that my old friends weren’t coming back. Anderson Cooper calling my photo ‘disgusting’ still hurts because I really adored him,” she wrote. “Andy Cohen saying ‘I don’t know her”‘after all of it went down was, and is, painful, as a result of I actually loved my time at Bravo.”

Cohen and Griffin’s feud has been ongoing for years. In July 2019, Griffin took one other jab at Cohen whereas on Good Day New York.

“If he has a skill set, I’d like to know what that is,” the comedian stated of Cohen on the time. “It’s hard to name one.”

Weeks later, the Real Housewives govt producer advised USA Today that Griffin lies about him. “She’s made up a lot of stuff about me in the past few years that has just been untrue and sad,” Cohen claimed. “I hope she finds some peace.”

Several of her standup specials aired on Bravo and her actuality collection, My Life on the D List, ended after six seasons in 2010.

While Cohen will return for his fifth yr on CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live, will probably be completely different this yr as will probably be a dry broadcast. Variety reported in November that CNN chairman Chris Licht needed to take alcohol out of the published.

“What [Chris Licht] said was that he didn’t want the correspondents out there drinking, but that he wanted Anderson and I to do our thing,” Cohen advised The Hollywood Reporter. “So I’m happy to do our thing. My only directive for years on CNN has been to have fun on New Year’s Eve, and that is absolutely what I plan to do.”

Days earlier than the published, Cohen advised Page Six that he and Cooper received’t be indulging on the air anymore. “We aren’t drinking, but we’re going to have a BLAST,” he stated.