Primetime Emmy award winner and American comedian, Kathy Griffin has often starred in television comedy specials. She went on to win an Emmy award for her reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List in 2007 and 2008. Griffin on Monday revealed that she has been diagnosed with Liver Cancer.
Born in Illinois, Kathy Griffin has released six comedy albums that received Grammy award nominations. Later, she became the first female comedian to debut at the top of the Billboard Top Comedy Albums chart.
The 60-year-old also released her autobiography in 2009 titled Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin. While she was doing comedy specials for Bravo, Kathy recorded sixteen television specials, breaking the Guinness World record for the number of aired television specials on any network. Furthermore, she also went on to become the first comedian to have four specials televised in a year. Adding on to her achievement, she is also an LGBTQ activist who has time and again stood for same-sex marriage. She is popularly known for her stance on celebrities and her conversational tone during her specials.
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The comedian and actor recently announced that she has lung cancer. “I’ve got to tell you guys something. I have cancer,” Griffin took to Instagram on Monday to announce the same.
“I’m about to go into surgery to have half of my left lung removed,” she continued. “Yes, I have lung cancer even though I’ve never smoked!”
The comedian-actor expects that she would “be up and running around as usual in a month or less”. “It’s been a helluva 4 years, trying to get back to work, making you guys laugh and entertaining you, but I’m gonna be just fine,” she added.
Kathy Griffin ended her note encouraging people to get regular medical checkups and noted that it could have been more serious had she not been vaccinated.
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“Of course I am fully vaccinated for Covid. The consequences for being unvaccinated would have been even more serious,” she said. “Please stay up to date on your medical check ups. It’ll save your life.
