Kathy Griffin is going public with an effort to identify a man she alleges has been following her on daily walks, “harassing” her, and repeatedly trying to get her to answer questions about Donald Trump on camera.
The comedian posted a blurry photo of the man on social media Friday and wrote, “This #creeper has been harassing me on my daily walks on the Dume in Malibu. I know it’s a very local reference but if you know you know. It’s not a ‘celebrity’ spot.”
The My Life on the D-List star said the man in question insistently grills her about President Trump. “He approaches me with his camera and asks me only questions about Trump and tells me that he can ‘get Donald Trump to watch the video’ of me,” Griffin wrote. “He then gets in his pick up and follows me on my walk for a while.”
Griffin added that she now brings a companion on her outings as a precautionary measure. “I’ve started bringing my large watchdog with me so he did not get as close to me this time,” she wrote. “I wish I had a better picture for you guys. Can anybody identify this character? Please let me know. I never know when he is going to show up. I have never seen him photographing anyone else.”
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Griffin for further comment.
Griffin has been an outspoken critic of President Trump, notably igniting controversy when she posed for a photo shoot holding a bloody replica of the commander-in-chief’s severed head in 2017. Trump himself criticized the photo in a tweet, writing, “Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!”
The controversy prompted the Secret Service to investigate Griffin, though she later said she was “completely exonerated” of wrongdoing. She initially apologized for the photo shoot but later retracted her apology. “F— him,” Griffin said on The View in 2018. “I’m not holding back on this family. This family is different. I’ve been through the mill.” Griffin detailed (and joked about) the experience in her 2019 standup film A Hell of a Story.
She continued criticizing Trump, slamming his administration’s pandemic response after her own Covid-19 scare. She wrote that she was crying “tears of joy” on social media following Trump’s indictment on 34 felony counts in 2024.
Before Trump’s re-election, Griffin told Entertainment Weekly that she feared she and other comedians would be personally targeted by the billionaire if he returned to office. “He’s going to pick us off, one by one, like bowling pins, and I’m not kidding and I’m not being paranoid,” she said. “I’m a D-lister, he’s not going to get to me on day one, but he’ll get to me, trust me. He’s got a list. I’ve known this guy for 25 years, maybe 30. He’s so petty that he lives for this. He doesn’t want to be president or do any president-ing.”
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Griffin continued, “If he gets re-elected, he’ll go after Jimmy Kimmel, he’ll go after Jon Stewart, all the name ones, but he’ll go after Rosie O’Donnell. That’s all he’s going to do all day. He’ll have press conferences about it. He’s so much crazier than he was the first go-round.”
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