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says she feels vindicated - and 'uncanceled' - nearly nine years after she faced personal and professional consequences after posting a photo holding a severed head resembling President .
The 65-year-old comedian was asked Thursday by WUSF about how she's been nearly a decade after the national controversy, which cost her lucrative jobs and .
'I think I'm uncanceled, which is a miracle to me because I didn't think I would ever be uncanceled,' the Emmy-winning comic said.
The Oak Park, native went into detail about the fallout of the scandal, and how she's slowly rebuilt her career in the time since.
'I didn't work for seven years,' Griffin said, 'and then when I went back on tour last time, which I made a special out of, which is free on , it's called Kathy Griffin My Life on the PTSD List.
Griffin said that she understands she will forever be linked to the photo (which was snapped by photographer Tyler Shields), saying, 'People still define me by it.'
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Kathy Griffin, 65, says she feels vindicated - and 'uncanceled' nearly nine years after she faced personal and professional consequences after posting a photo holding a severed head resembling President Donald Trump. Pictured October 29 in NYC
Griffin said that in the wake of , she feels like a vindicated visionary to have made the bold artistic statement early into his first term.
Trump pictured in the Oval Office in January after signing an order
Griffin said that she understands she will forever be linked to the photo (which was snapped by photographer Tyler Shields), saying, 'People still define me by it'
The My Life on the D-List personality added, 'I was crying, and Jim said, "Put it through your Kathy Griffin comedy prism, and something funny will come out of it."
