How many siblings does Kathy Griffin have? All about family amid comedian’s troubling confession about late brother 

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Kathy Griffin shared a dark revelation about her family member (Image Via Getty)

According to an article by The Daily Mail, American actress and comedian Kathy Griffin recently spoke about her late brother while reflecting on the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife.

In a YouTube video posted on her channel earlier in December, Kathy speaks about her eldest brother Kenneth and his pedophilia.

Kathy Griffin has four siblings and is the youngest of five children. The names of her siblings are Kenneth, John, Gary, and Joyce.


About Kathy Griffin's video and revelation

Comedian Kathy Griffin recently posted a video on her YouTube channel where she mourned the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Reiner.

"I'm going to talk to you about something that I haven't really discussed since my first book. In reference to her 2009 memoir, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, she stated in the video
"When I talked about it, the rest of my family was very, very upset with me. Well, my oldest brother, Kenneth, was a crack addict, homeless, and quite violent. He is now dead, thank God. [He] most likely suffered from an untreated mental disorder that clearly interfered with his use of crack cocaine."

After honoring Rob and Michele Reiner, Griffin turned to her own dysfunctional family. Although they weren’t close friends, she claimed to know Rob; Rob and Michele were photographed in March in Los Angeles.

Kathy Griffin said that her late parents, John and Maggie, did not give up on their troubled son. She only knew Kenneth during his difficult years because she was much younger than him. However, she said that her parents informed her that his problems started when he was only a teenager.

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Griffin claims that at the age of ten, Kenneth’s first wife informed her that he used to beat her so badly that it was almost inconceivable. According to her, Kenneth’s girlfriend later informed her "that he was also violent with her."

“So, for all the ways that the Trumpers use the word ‘pedo,’ and all the stuff we have learned about Jeffrey Epstein, let me tell you something. Having your oldest brother be a pedophile is something that you don’t ever grow out of. You don’t get over it.”
“I wanted to kill him because all I could think about were those children. And the expression ‘blood is thicker than water’ was not true in my case. I didn’t give a f*** that he was my older brother, and I did not want to protect him", Griffin said

The comedian stated that despite her repeated reports of her brother to the police, they “would never do anything about it.”

She added, "I don't know if any of my relatives know that to this day. I was calling, like, once a week on my own brother, and they wouldn't do anything," she claimed.

In 2017, Kathy Griffin made headlines by shaving her head to support her sister Joyce's battle with cancer. Her mother Maggie shared Kathy’s photographs at the time and called her “a wonderful human being.”

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Edited by Ritika Pal