Anderson Cooper later said at a couple of different events in the weeks after the drama surrounding Kathy Griffin and the photo that the two were still friends, though he continued to decry the incident. At an event in June 2017, he said, “I said that […] I didn’t approve it in any way, and I think when you’re friends with somebody you can say that,” via Bravo TV.
But despite what Cooper was saying in public about still being friends with Griffin, the embattled comedienne wasn’t hearing from him directly, and that was a big part of the problem when it came to their relationship. She told The Cut that she’d heard from some other people she’d worked with at CNN as the controversy raged, but Cooper took his time reaching out to her. When he did check in via text in August, over two months after the photo first came out, it sounds like Griffin had had enough, and she told him their friendship was over.
In an interview with Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show in 2018, Griffin revealed that they were closer when they first became friends, but, “then I think he’s the type of guy who’s into shiny objects, so later on he wasn’t as into it.”
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