JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 Comedian Kathy Griffin will be making a stop in Jacksonville in February. The \u201cMy Life on the D-List\u201d star will be playing at the Florida Theatre on February 15 for her \u201cNew Face New Tour.\u201d I got the chance to sit down with the controversial comedian ahead of her upcoming show to discuss the infamous Trump photo, the aftermath, and returning to the stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rebuild has been brick by brick,\u201d reflects Griffin on the aftermath of her photo holding a bloody head of President Trump. \u201cI mean that controversial photo caused an international seismic scandal, which you almost cannot even believe to this day. It was eight years ago, MAGA people are still pissed off at me. They said I was the face of ISIS, it came directly from the Oval Office. I filed a FOIA, a Freedom of Information Act, that revealed how serious they were about trying to charge me with the crime of conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States. I was the only comic that was fully investigated by two agencies within the Department of Justice. I was interrogated, under oath, or they were going to indict me; it was madness. It cost me a fortune in legal bills, in security, and over the years, as Trump has gotten worse and revealed himself to be the pig that he is, more people stop me on the street now than ever and thank me for that picture. So the shift…the tide has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d ever come back to Jacksonville. I didn\u2019t think you guys would ever have me,\u201d says Griffin on returning to the stage. \u201cSo I\u2019m so honored to be back in Jacksonville, I can\u2019t tell you, because that\u2019s really meaningful to me.\u201d She credits fans buying tickets to her shows as the reason she\u2019s \u201cuncancelled.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can hear more of Kathy\u2019s stories and the message she has for ICE in the full interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tickets for Kathy Griffin at the Florida Theatre<\/a> are on sale now. <\/p>\n You can hear more interviews in the Chase Chats<\/a> section of WOKV.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 Comedian Kathy Griffin will be making a stop in Jacksonville in February. The \u201cMy Life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,409,794,28,44518,19954,1877,116,118,117,65026,795,349,3323,9105],"class_list":{"0":"post-132164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-796","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-duval","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-theater","13":"tag-florida-theatre","14":"tag-ice","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","17":"tag-jacksonville-news","18":"tag-kathy-griffin","19":"tag-ne-florida","20":"tag-northeast-florida","21":"tag-photo","22":"tag-president-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}