Right here’s hoping Sharon Stone is acquainted with the idea of muting.
On Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Kathy Griffin shared her petty tactic for getting even with buddies who’ve wronged her in comparatively small methods — and the stunt is so deliciously petty that even Kimmel mentioned he needed to steal it.
“My new favorite hobby is that every time Sharon Stone blows me off for a dinner date, I add her to a random text chain,” the comic revealed, inflicting Kimmel to crack up. “And Jimmy, she, like, wants to kill me.”
“How many times has this happened?” Kimmel requested.
“Around four,” Griffin responded. “And they’re like 17-person text chains.”
“And it’ll say, ‘Sharon Stone has been added to the conversation?’” Kimmel requested.
“And it’s her real number,” Griffin added. “It’s not her office number.”
“I like that,” Kimmel mentioned laughing. “I’m going to use that, I like that idea.”
Elsewhere within the interview, the Emmy-winner additionally touched on her turbulent previous couple of years. In 2017 — throughout President-elect Donald Trump’s first time period in workplace — she obtained widespread backlash after she posed for photographs wherein she held what resembled the bloody, decapitated head of Trump. Though Griffin rapidly apologized for the controversial joke, the “Suddenly Susan” alum mentioned she was briefly positioned on a no-fly listing and likewise confronted a attainable cost of conspiracy to assassinate the president. The transfer additionally ostracized her from Hollywood — and he or she was swifty fired from her New Yr’s Eve internet hosting gig at CNN for the stunt.
In 2021, Griffin advised ABC Information that she additionally obtained an onslaught of relentless dying threats, which spurred an habit to painkillers — and that she additionally secretly tried to take her personal life.
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Throughout this tough interval, Griffin was additionally identified with lung most cancers in 2021. Griffin underwent surgical procedure for the situation and has been cancer-free since.
Final yr, Griffin revealed that she had been lately identified with an “extreme case” of post-traumatic stress dysfunction — which has impressed the identify of her newest stand-up tour, “My Life on the PTSD List.” The title is a play on her former actuality present, “My Life on the D-List.”
“I’m calling it ‘My Life on the PTSD-List’ because I really do have freakin’ PTSD,” Griffin defined to Kimmel Tuesday evening. “I mean, the Trump thing, and then I got lung cancer, and I have a vocal cord implant, and I’m going through a divorce, and I was addicted to prescription pills and now I’m 4 1/2 years sober,” Griffin mentioned.
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Griffin mentioned she’s thrilled her life is lastly turning round due to her new tour.
“And I want to tell you something ― this is really corny,” Griffin mentioned to Kimmel. “Every single live show, and I’ve done about 50 shows so far, I always make a point to say, ‘And the one late night host who never ditched me was Jimmy Kimmel.’”
“And not only would I not ditch you, I look forward to us spending time in prison together in January,” Kimmel joked, referencing his personal long-running feud with Trump.
