Kathy Griffin performs this Saturday at the Moore Theatre.
This story is presented as part of The Stranger’s Art + Performance Quarterly, Summer 2018 Edition.
On May 30, 2017, Kathy Griffin’s life as she knew it came to an end.
That day, gossip site TMZ published a now-infamous photo taken by celebrity photographer Tyler Shields, who reportedly leaked the image to TMZ himself. The photo showed Griffin, stone-faced, grasping Donald Trump’s severed head by its raggedy blond hair as blood poured down the president’s face. If you squinted (and wished) hard enough, you could almost—almost—imagine it was the real thing.
