these images. I’m a comic. I crossed the line. I move the line, then I cross it. The image went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it. I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my career. I will continue [to do so]… I ask for your forgiveness… taking down the image, gonna ask the photographer to take down the image, and I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake, and I was wrong.”
Kathy Griffin is not one to sidestep controversy and Tuesday, she stepped right in it, when TMZ released a photo of the comedian that shows her holding the bloody “head” of President Trump.
The photo — shot by equally controversial photographer Tyler Shields — did not go over well on social media.
But then, Griffin expected as much, judging from the behind-the-scenes video that Shields shared on YouTube in which she joked about the reception the photo would get.
“We have to move to Mexico today, because we’re going to go to prison — federal prison,” Griffin told Shields.
Griffin shared the photo on Twitter with a caption referencing the infamous comments Trump made about former Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly in August 2015. At the time, Trump spoke to a reporter about Kelly’s demeanor as she moderated a presidential debate. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes,” Trump told CNN. “Blood coming out of her wherever.”
Griffin wrote, “I caption this ‘there was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his…wherever.’ Also @tylershields great Photog/film maker.”
“OBVIOUSLY, I do not condone ANY violence by my fans or others to anyone, ever!” she added in another tweet. “I’m merely mocking the Mocker in Chief.”
POTUS hasn’t responded to Griffin’s photo yet, but his son Donald Trump Jr. was not pleased.
source:TMZ
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