Kathy Griffin Opens Up About Pedophile Brother

Today we're sitting down with two-time Emmy and Grammy award-winning comedian, Kathy Griffin. Kathy joins us for a discussion about her entire career journey. From being investigated by the federal government and growing up with a pedophile as a brother, to navigating the challenges of being a female comedian and addressing the gender gap in the industry. We also delve into her experiences living next to Kim and Kanye, her openness about plastic surgery, and her recent diagnosis with lung cancer.

[PhyliciaCleaver]

She said, “I would keep driving, I don’t support pedophiles.” Thank you, Kathy!

[kimberlyporter]

We need to be having these conversations. Paedophilia shouldn't be tolerated in any environment

[Hanon]

My grandpa molested and SA’d me when I was 8. It had gone on for months whenever he would stay with us to visit, and finally one night after he came in my room I felt uncomfortable enough to say something to my mom. She let me stay in her room while they got him out and then tried to say that I probably imagined it. They took me to a gynecologist to see if I had any signs of trauma and I overheard my parents talking to a therapist while I waited outside. I never saw him again, but I know my family still had contact with him. My aunt and cousin would go on vacations to visit him and everyone acted like everything was normal. He died a couple years ago and I’m glad. But my mom and her siblings went to his funeral.

I guess he was their dad, but that incident is so horrific to me I could never still engage with him or anyone who had contact with him if that was my own child. They’d be dead

[Ms.NIkaDM]

She did the right thing. Imagine being a 10 year old girl witnessing your brother beating his wife & finding out he’s a pedo. He would be absolutely NOTHING to me! Ppl need to stop making excuses for evil acts of family!

[mamasgotink]

I don't understand families who cover up for pedophiles! I'd turn in my own father, brother or son if they did anything like that and never speak to them again! And I taught my children that I would always, ALWAYS believe them if something happened to them! I am so very sorry to everyone being so brave to share their stories on this post❤

[bridgett]

My uncle is a pedo. Found out as an adult. But my mum was one of the only siblings that took his wife’s side and has never spoken to him since. I will never get over that people stuck by him.

[jezebelproudfoot]

I was 10 when my sister told me our dad was molesting her, she was 4. I spent the rest of my childhood & teens protecting her every time he got “weird” around her. It cost me a lot of beatings, wrath & emotional abuse. I berated myself for years for not outting him outright. But nobody ever intervened tho it was obvious to me & ppl have expressed hindsight suspicions to me as an adult. I finally got peace when I realized my mom, sister & dad wd have all denied it & it wd have gone nowhere.

[cocohodge]

I will never understand people that say “well he’s my brother, or sister or whoever.” No, you don’t support domestic violence and you don’t support pedos.

[bobbibart]

I'll NEVER understand families that know a family member who "really loved little kids and really wants to show it." Like imagine being 5+ and being told."Don't ever be alone with Uncle ricky, Don't let him hug you/sit on his lap and dont wear bathing suits or this type of clothes around him." And Uncle Ricky is at every family function around ALL the family kids. AND 90% time if Uncle Ricky did get a chance to be alone with you & you had sit on his lap. It was YOUR fault! You clearly did something or wanted that "attention."


I....I....could never imagine....

[barikareese]

Happened with my father, his family knew the whole time and never told my mom. They said "that's his choice", and we cut everyone off from my dad's side. When my dad did it to me I told my mom and I was the first person to tell her... I'm the youngest child and I was 17 already. I found out when we went to the police that he also did it to some of my other sisters too. He's now a registered seggs offender and I can never forget hearing my mom cry herself to sleep the night he got arrested and realized the whole 20 year marriage was a sham. I hope I never see him again.

[mrman]

I am a man, 44. I was coerced, along with another 12 year old boy, into becoming a sex object for a convicted paedophile in our local town in Cornwall. This went on for about 5 years. 5 years of being raped most days after school.
It took years for me to speak to the police. I finally did and now the monster is serving a 14 year prison sentence.
What happened ruined my life for many years and it has taken a huge amount of work with my therapist to get to a point where I am back working and in a new relationship.
Paedophiles destroy lives and have no place in society.

[aidanflynn]

She’s brave to talk about this whether you’re a fan of hers or not. -I don’t agree with some of her views but she’s courageous to discuss this.

[LauraBidingCitizen]

My brother died October 2022. My mum died very suddenly on her birthday in January 2022. He had bad mouthed myself and my other 2 brothers unknowingly to my mother’s family, & refused to turn up at his own mother’s funeral.. the only woman who had ever supported that vile creature through his drug use, alcoholism, violence - he detested me. I was the only girl, the youngest.. he loathed me, & I wouldn’t have put it past him to unalive me (& at age 11 he put a kitchen knife to my throat, & no one in my family believed me - that was the tip of the iceberg). He died from his lifestyle of drink and drugs. After, his ex messaged me & asked me what he did to me as a child, I asked her what she meant? She said on one of his nightly drunken stupors, he slurred out loud that ‘I deserved everything he did to me as a kid’ - I’d never told a soul he had SA’d me, even convincing myself I was the sick one for even thinking it. Turns out I wasn’t. I vomited for hours.
My elderly father is in heart failure and doesn’t know. My mum now knows all the secrets. I hope wherever he is, he isn’t near mum. It’s the only thing I’m frightened of when I die, that I’ll see him again. I told my brothers and even they didn’t believe me, so I no longer speak about it other than now.
I understand those mixed emotions she felt, but I also wouldn’t have ever helped him either. Hope he rots.

[Allthesame]

My brother-in-law bragged about having sexual contact with a girl I worked with she was the same age as me and my husband. His brother is 4 years older than us. He had been with his current girlfriend from 19/20 when she had just turned 16. So I got suspicious and questioned how old he was at the time. He said 18/19. The girl was 13/14 at the time. He was laughing and bragging about her "little body." Me and my husband cut all ties with him, and he was 26 when he was bragging about this. He has numerous other behaviours that align with bad things just like this. My husband told his mum, the mother, and the rest of the family have since made me and my husband the black sheep and have somehow managed to blame me, the daughter in law 😂 and the 46 year old mother said that "she obviously wanted it". I think if there's one thing worse than predators, it's the enablers that will stop at nothing to excuse and blame the victims

[NandoDisco]

I'm 36 and still dealing with the effects of my abuse. It destroys so much. I'm rebuilding myself finally.

[TamaraGKing]

Love that she said she kept driving cos she don't support pedos! So many people support these nasty people! Big up Kathy

[mrpettybones]

I was assaulted when I was 7 & 12 and I WISH I said something then instead of now because I will forever need therapy for the rest of my say something if YOU SEE SOMETHING

[ms.krueger]

My brother in law is in jail now for that. His own granddaughter. I really hope he does not make it out of there.

[michellecandy]

My father came from Cuba during the Peter Pan flights. He was a young teenager with no family in the U.S. so he ended up in foster care. We do not know much about what he went thru but we do know that he was molested by a priest. Although my father was not very good to us, I appreciate the fact that he did not hurt my sister and I in that way. Maybe his life would have been different if he didn’t suffer the way he did…

[Ninjanimegamer]

I was molested at 7 by my friends father while sleeping over her house. I told my friend what had happened and she said dont worry, he does that all the time to me.
She did warn me not to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, but I had to go bad. Thank goodness her mom heard what was going on and came up to their room to save me.
I was feeling angry and sad all at once. Who was I to complain about groping when she got it worse, and much more frequently. Her mom was on something a lot of the time and didn't help her daughter (my friend).
I got the chance to go home and leave that situation behind, but she didn't. There was no escape for her.

I told my mom. However, many parents and adults knew what was happening. This father wasn't quiet about things and he and his wife were known swingers. Word got around. Dcf was called, but nothing came of it.

While we were in h.s, he was facing a divorce and dying of AIDS. He died before the divorce was processed.
Both patents caused the issue though.
Her mom went along with what her father wanted and it became both of their lifestyle.
It wasnt the first time this happened to me, but it was the first time a friend had been going through the same thing.
I guess there were a lot of crazy fathers in the 1970s.