Overview
- Kathy Griffin told NPR affiliate WUSF she considers herself uncanceled and is returning to Florida with her New Face, New Tour shows.
- She says audiences are greeting her with standing ovations, including before she walks on stage, as she resumes large live performances.
- The comedian has retracted her 2017 apology for the Trump severed‑head photo and now says she is proud of the image and leans into it.
- Griffin says the controversy cost her work for seven years, after which she returned to touring and released the special Kathy Griffin: My Life on the PTSD List.
- The 2017 photo drew bipartisan condemnation, led to her removal from CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast, and resulted in a federal investigation from which she was later cleared.