Kathy Griffin Thanks Bill Maher for Being One of the ‘Only People’ Who Publicly Supported Her

On Friday night, Kathy Griffin sat down with Bill Maher, one of her first major interviews since she had that infamous photoshoot of her holding up President Trump‘s severed head last spring.

Before being asked anything, Griffin began by thanking Maher for “being one of the first and only people to publicly support me and say what happened to me was bullsh*t.”

“Because I got texts from celebrities that were like, ‘Um don’t tell anybody I sent you this text, but I support you all the way, I love you’…. Jerry Seinfeld,” Griffin said.

After the audience gasped, Griffin clarified that she was “kidding” about Seinfeld.

Maher that he “missed” Griffin and praised her for being a “hard worker.”

“So for you to have it all taken away, it just really pissed me off more than anything because look, you took a really bad selfie,” Maher told Griffin. “But this isn’t the United States of Babies. The first thing you said was, ‘Look, I went too far. I get it. It should have been over…’ But of course, everyone has to go batsh*t nuts about everything all the time.”

Maher then compared her incident to what happened to him on ABC after 9/11, but said she had it “far worse” because she had her “livelihood taken away” from her and that she was “interrogated” by the Department of Justice.

“I mean flying is still a problem for you, is it not?” Maher continued. “You were on the D-list. Now you’re on the no-fly list!”

“The D-list is much better,” Griffin joked.

Watch the clip above, via HBO.

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