Kathy Griffin Tears Into ‘D*ck’ Stephen Colbert for ‘Bullsh*t Ambush’ on Infamous Beheaded Trump Photo

Kathy Griffin called out fellow comedian Stephen Colbert over what she described as a “bullshit ambush” in an interview during which he pressed her on her infamous photo with a fake decapitated head of President Donald Trump.

In a YouTube video published on Tuesday, Griffin called Colbert a “dick” and said he had agreed through a segment producer not to bring up the infamous 2017 photos that caused her to lose multiple gigs, including at CNN, as well as be questioned by the Secret Service.

In their 2018 Late Show interview, Colbert challenged Griffin, who defended the photo by noting it was protected by the First Amendment.

“There are limits, though, what you can say about the president of the United States, specifically having to do with harm against the president of the United States,” Colbert said at the time.

Griffin described the mask resembling Trump’s face as a “Halloween mask with ketchup” and said at the time that she had been without work since the blowback.

Griffin revealed in her video that she was informed shortly before the interview that Colbert was going to bring up the Trump photo despite her one request being that the subject get skipped altogether. The comedian said she fought back tears when Colbert was not on her side and went with a tougher line of questioning than she thought. After the interview, Griffin said she “burst into tears” and was told Colbert brought the photo up because he’s “really Catholic” and he “couldn’t get over” it.

“It was a line of questioning where I remember thinking, ‘wow, he has way more of a bias against me and my right to take that photo than I imagined in my worst case scenario that I had imagined when I couldn’t sleep the night before,'” she said.

Griffin said Colbert “kept going and kept going,” refusing to drop the photo questions. She accused Colbert of punching down against a “D-lister,” saying at one point, “What a dick.”

“Anything but this,” Griffin recalled thinking as she fought back tears. She called the interview a “bullshit ambush” that was “laced with misogyny,” insisting Colbert would not have been as hard on a male comic.

Colbert, she added at one point, “would never have the balls” to deal with the “fallout” she did following the photo controversy.

“I have such a low opinion of Stephen Colbert now,” Griffin said.